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Article: Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest. Adrian Murdoch. Sutton Publishing. [pounds sterling]20.00. xiv + 234 pages. ISBN 0-7509-4015-8. Mr Murdoch's aim is to give readers a detailed account of the greatest single defeat suffered by the Empire's troops in A.D. 9. In September that year an army of German tribesmen, led by a man who had served in the Roman army, met and defeated roughly half of Rome's troops in the western empire. Even though the defeat ...
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