Voici donc, au jour le jour, trois années de cette vie singulière qui commença pour moi le 17 juin 1940, avec le refus du discours de Pétain puis l'embarquement à Bayonne. J'avais 19 ans. Après deux années de formation en Angleterre, j'ai été parachuté à Montluçon le 25 juillet 1942. Destiné à être
Caracalla
✍ Scribed by Ilkka Syvanne
- Book ID
- 100256385
- Publisher
- Pen and Sword
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 12 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1473895251
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Caracalla has one of the worst reputations of any Roman Emperor. Many ancient historians were very hostile and Edward Gibbon later dubbed him 'the common enemy of mankind'. Yet his reign was considered by at least one Roman author to be the apogee of the Roman Empire. Guilty of many murders and massacres (including his own brother, ex-wife and daughter) he was, however, popular with the army, improving their pay and cultivating the image of sharing their hardships. Surprisingly this is the first full-length biography of this colorful character in English.
Ilkka Syvanne explains how the biased ancient sources in combination with the stern looking statues of the emperor have created a distorted image of the man and then reconstructs the actual events, particularly his military campaigns and reforms, to offer a balanced view of his reign. The biography offers the first complete overview of the policies, events and military campaigns of the reign and explains how and...
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