The quest for the lost Roman legions: discovering the Varus battlefield

✍ Scribed by Prince of the Cherusci. Arminius;Varus, Publius Quintilius;Clunn, Tony

• Publisher: Savas Beatie
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 671 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York, Kalkriese (Germany), Germany--Westphalia., Germany--Teutoburg Forest, Germany--Kalkriese.
• ISBN: 1611210089

✦ Synopsis

In 9 A.D., the 17th, 18th, & 19th Roman legions and their auxiliary troops under the command of Publius Quinctilius Varus vanished in the boggy wilds of Germania. They died singly and by the hundreds over several days in a carefully planned ambush led by Arminius--a Roman-trained German warrior adopted and subsequently knighted by the Romans, but determined to stop Rome's advance east beyond the Rhine River. By the time it was over, some 25,000 men, women, and children were dead and the course of European history had been forever altered. "Quinctilius Varus, give me back my legions!" Emperor Augustus agonized aloud when he learned of the devastating loss.

As the decades slipped past, the location of the Varus defeat, one of the Western world's most important battlefields, was lost to history. It remained so for two millenia.

Fueled by an unshakeable curiosity and burning interest in the story, a British Major named J. A. S. (Tony) Clunn delved into the nooks and...

✦ Subjects

Germany -- Westphalia