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	The Roman Army at War 100 BC - AD 200 (Oxford Classical Monographs) Oxford University Press, USA from The Wine Glass ...
		Goldsworthy navigates through a sea of frail conclusions, unconvincing explanations, and unreliable sources, many of which he cites throughout the text, dealing with the Roman military and how they waged war, coming out the other side into the fairly uncharted waters of how war was waged on the individual.
		Goldsworthy begins with the description of Roman military organization covering the evolution of the Legion due to "the changing scale of warfare" (37) from thirty maniples to ten cohorts.
		Goldsworthy states, "moral, far more than physical, factors were of most importance in determining the course of the fighting" (244), battles in this period seem to be highly fluid confrontations involving intervals of intense melee and then long episodes of uneasy face off where the difference between victory and defeat could be rather small indeed.
	www.thewineglassshop.com /details/0198150903.html (2327 words)

	Amazon.ca: Complete Roman Army: Books: Adrian Goldsworthy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Goldsworthy's "The Complete Roman Army" is THE grandest omnipotent authoritativeness in affectionately scrutinizing every last detail of the Republic's, Principate's, and Late Antiquity's armies, that it could be construed as corrosively schizophrenic, but in a good way: ordering and cataloguing of everything material to the Roman army's application.
		While Goldsworthy reveals that this establishment has been proven in recent years, he's also mindful enough to recall the previously held assumption that, even though ancient sources never substantiated it, horsemen were illegally presumed to have not been able to efficiently partake in battle.
		Goldsworthy's masterpiece may be an adverse bit excessive for casual Roman aficionados, and a beforehand, general familiarization with Rome might well help to improve the reader's understanding of his book's educational merit.
	www.amazon.ca /Complete-Roman-Army-Adrian-Goldsworthy/dp/0500051240 (1186 words)

	Amazon.com: The Punic Wars: Books: Adrian Goldsworthy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Goldsworthy is an Oxford graduate and clinical scholar with particular expertise in Roman military history.
		Adrian Goldsworthy is a highly-regarded young British historian and, on the basis of his immensely readable Punic Wars, it's easy to see why.
		Toward the end of his fascinating history of the Punic Wars, author Adrian Goldsworthy speculates that one of the reasons for Carthage's fall is that the African empire was too exclusively mercantile in its mindset.
	www.amazon.com /Punic-Wars-Adrian-Goldsworthy/dp/0304352845 (2663 words)

	In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire (Phoenix Press) by Phoenix Press
		Goldsworthy also attempts to divine general lessons about the nature of the Roman command style from the behavior of these generals, many of whom are not well-known to modern readers.
		Goldsworthy also discusses changes in the Roman Army over these centuries, including a greater degree of professionalism and the fact that soldiers became more loyal to their commanders (the one who rewarded them, anyway) than the state.
		Adrian Goldsworthy has received wide acclaim for his exceptional writing on the Roman Empire—including high praise from the acclaimed military historian and author John Keegan— and here he offers a new perspective on the Empire by focusing on its greatest generals, including Scipio Africanus, Marius, Pompey, Caesar, and Titus.
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	In the Name of Rome Spectator, The - Find Articles
		Adrian Goldsworthy has given his book the subtitle 'The men who won the Roman Empire'.
		It's a study of 15 Roman commanders, and this subtitle recognises a truth from which many prefer to avert their eyes: that empires are won, expanded, and defended by armed force, usually by armies, sometimes by navies and now also by air power.
		Goldsworthy's choice of commanders ranges from Fabius Cunctator and Marcellus in the second Punic war (second century BC) to Gelisarius (6th century AD).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3724/is_200311/ai_n9318119 (920 words)

	Caesar: Life of a Colossus
		Goldsworthy makes it clear from the start that his biography is focused on the man and less so on those around him.
		Goldsworthy in his accounting does indeed point out the actions of Caesar which deserve acclaim as moments of true brilliance, but he does not brush over the man's failures.
		Goldsworthy captures this, and though I have read this tale many times before, I feel as if I’ve walked away with something fresh and new, all written with a flowing presentation, making this book one of the greats on Caesar, and well worth a read.
	www.unrv.com /book-review/life-of-a-colossus.php (1222 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.8.10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Goldsworthy challenges several assumptions about the way Roman armies were organized and deployed and the bases for Roman tactical success in the field.
		Chief among these are that legions were trained to exercise rigid battle plans and, although generally successful in set-piece battles and sieges, were ill-suited for other kinds of conflict.
		That said, the book does what is sets out to do, that is, it emphasizes the inherent flexibility of the Roman legion, and it describes Roman battles in terms of what actually happens on the ground rather than in terms of questionable theories of grand strategy and tactics.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1997/97.08.10.html (1029 words)

	Adrian Goldsworthy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969) is a British historian and military writer.
		After studying at St John's College, Oxford, he completed a Ph.D in ancient military history in 1994.
		Goldsworthy is the author of several books on the subject, including:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adrian_Goldsworthy (189 words)

	FT.com / Arts & weekend / Books - Immortal combat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		At any rate, a biographer such as Goldsworthy, fascinated by the Roman war machine in general, and by Caesar’s tactical genius in particular, must assume his subject to have been a man of scant literary imagination.
		The result in Goldsworthy’s Caesar is a solid and straightforward account of a strategic career that makes the SAS veterans of today look like mere paintball skirmishers.
		Like Caesar, Goldsworthy prefers an essentially dispassionate approach, taking each campaign as it comes and refraining from the temptation to elaborate an epic whose climax would be the showdown with Pompey at Pharsalus, in northern Greece (48BC).
	www.ft.com /cms/s/68c719de-f5e7-11da-b09f-0000779e2340.html (933 words)

	Julius Caesar - Books - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Goldsworthy is just the latest of many to have fallen for Caesar's charms.
		Goldsworthy says from the beginning that Caesar "was not a Hitler or a Stalin, nor indeed a Genghis Khan," the historianisn't smitten with his subject.
		Goldsworthy, "it is rare to meet an ancient historian who does not have a strong opinion about Caesar." While this is no doubt true, I don't find it particularly striking.
	www.washtimes.com /books/20061007-104913-2482r.htm (442 words)

	Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy
		Throughout this book Goldsworthy keeps an impressive focus on Caesar as a man - putting the great leader in the context of the late Roman Republic but not slipping into an exhaustive account of Roman politics or the events that followed his legendary murder.
		Best of all, Goldsworthy reminds us, Caesar is as intriguing and enigmatic today as any other figure in history.
		In this new biography, the first for many years, Adrian Goldsworthy tells the story of the man who has inspired politicians, military leaders and philanderers throughout history.
	www.lovereading.co.uk /book/1164 (438 words)

	Goldsworthy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Goldsworthy is the name of more than one person:
		Roger Goldsworthy — President of Nevis; Governor of Saint Lucia; Governor of the British Honduras; and Governor of the Falkland Islands.
		Goldsworthy is the name of a town which formerly existed in Western Australia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Goldsworthy (114 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1999.04.16 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Adrian Goldsworthy treats C.'s depiction of himself as a general.
		Though Goldsworthy's arguments are, for me, completely convincing, it may be worth raising one methodological complication.
		Goldsworthy also points out that there is good reason to suspect that the "literary" tradition may have had a considerable role in shaping military practices in its own image (195).
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1999/1999-04-16.html (2455 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was seized with his comrades off the island of Pharmacussa, his captors demanding a ransom of 20 talents of silver.
		Britain wasn't properly colonised until almost a century later, Caesar's invasion being, as Goldsworthy bluntly puts it, "a failure" which "narrowly missed becoming a disaster".
		Goldsworthy is renowned as a military historian, but his coverage here of messy late Republican politics is also authoritative and crystal clear.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /books/reviews/article549636.ece (1006 words)

	OUP: UK General Catalogue
		This detailed examination of the way in which the Roman army operated during a war and how it fought a battle breaks away from existing studies, which mostly concentrate on the army in peacetime, and attempts to understand the army as an institution whose ultimate purpose was to wage war.
		Adrian Goldsworthy explores the influence to the Roman army's organization on its behaviour during a campaign, emphasizing its great flexibility in comparison to most of its opponents.
		He considers the factors determining the result of a conflict and proposes, contrary to orthodox opinion, that the Roman army was able to adapt successfully to any type of warfare.
	www.oup.com /uk/catalogue/?ci=9780198150909 (491 words)

	Caesar's Civil War, 45-44 BC - by ADRIAN GOLDSWORTHY
		Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great were two of the greatest generals Rome had ever produced.
		Based on original sources, Adrian Goldsworthy provides a gripping account of this desperate power struggle.
		The armies were evenly matched but in the end Caesars genius as a commander and his great good luck brought him victory in 45 BC.
	www.zenithpress.com /ProductDetails_9703.ncm (205 words)

	The Complete Roman Army
		Having read an earlier Goldsworthy book I was expecting a small, thick, paperback style book chock full of information, but not much else.
		There are a number of detailed two plate single openings showing dispositions of forces and movements for various battles, that appear as required, and are easily understood.
		Thankfully Goldsworthy included the chapter “The Army of Late Antiquity” and I was able to discover the truth, in minute detail, about what their arms and armour really consisted of.
	www.unrv.com /book-review/complete-roman-army.php (583 words)

	In The Name Of Rome - Adrian Goldsworthy
		This is a military history, and the politics of the time is only considered when required to understand the appointment or actions of each general.
		Naturally, as the essays span a long period of history, from the early Republic to Byzantium, Goldsworthy has to use some of the essays to look at wider issues - changes in the Roman political system, or changes to the armies equipment and organisation.
		Actually, I found this book filled in a lot of blanks for me as I've been confusing the manipular and cohort armies for some time in my fiction reading, and although I was aware of the Marian reforms, I was never really sure what they entailed.
	www.dkennedy.org /C2025243227/E2012000808/index.html (424 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Punic Wars: Livres en anglais: Adrian Goldsworthy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Amazon.fr : The Punic Wars: Livres en anglais: Adrian Goldsworthy
		His survey of this pivotal conflict is a masterful account that will appeal to both specialists and general readers who appreciate a superbly told story.
		Goldsworthy explains complicated military moves in easily understood language, and he conveys the vast scope and carnage of the wars with both insight and objectivity.
	www.amazon.fr /Punic-Wars-Adrian-Goldsworthy/dp/0304352845 (420 words)

	Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 2002392513 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Library of Congress makes no claims as to the accuracy of the information provided, and will not maintain or otherwise edit/update the information supplied by the publisher.
		His first book, The Roman Army at War, was recognised by John Keegan, the distinguished military historian, as an exceptionally impressive work.
		Dr Goldsworthy's book in The Cassell History of Warfare series has also been widely recognised as exceptional in opening the history of Roman warfare to the general reader.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/bios/orion051/2002392513.html (147 words)

	De Bellis Bookstore --Rome and Her Enemies
		The Punic Wars by Adrian Goldsworthy (Cassell Academic, May 2001).
		Roman Warfare (History of Warfare Series, John Keegan, ed.) by Adrian Goldsworthy (Cassell Academic, April 2000).
		The Roman Army at War: 100 BC-AD 200, by Adrian K. Goldsworthy (Clarendon Press, Sept. 1998).
	fanaticus.org /DBA/bookstore/bookstore3.html (660 words)

	Ashton Boone
		Review of Roman Warfare by Adrian Goldsworthy (Cassell: Wellington House, 2000).
		Born in 1969, Adrian Goldsworthy went to school at Westbourne Boys College in Penarth near Cardiff before reading Ancient and Modern History at St. John’s College, Oxford.
		Rather, it was the acquisition of glory and personal prestige by Roman senators and motivation by the soldiers themselves to acquire booty, that drove the war machine that built the foundations of the world as we know it today.
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	Amazon.co.uk: The Complete Roman Army: Books: Adrian Keith Goldsworthy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The shape of "Mainz type" sword is awful and in comparison to newer "Pompeii style" sword they were usually longer.
		The text is very good like always with Adrian Goldsworthy, although there`s not much new.
		The "dream book" about roman army would be in my mind a combination of Peter Connolly`s illustrations, Daniel Peterson "Roman Legions Recreated in Coulour Photographs" style photos and Adrian Goldsworthy`s writing.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Complete-Roman-Adrian-Keith-Goldsworthy/dp/0500051240 (810 words)

	Rome - Books - Magic Bean Dip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As Adrian Goldsworthy writes in the introduction to this book, “in his fifty-six years, Caesar was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator.
		Ultimately, Goldsworthy realizes the full complexity of Caesar’s character and shows why his political and military leadership continues to resonate some two thousand years later.
		The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
	v1.magicbeandip.com /store/browse_books_4883 (2385 words)

	Dr. Adrian Goldsworthy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	Biographies - Midas Battlefield Tours
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		Adrian Goldsworthy was born in 1969 and educated at Westbourne Boys’ College in Penarth, South Wales, and at St. John’s College, Oxford.
		He completed his Doctorate in Ancient History in 1994, specialising in the military history of the Greek and especially Roman periods.
	www.midastours.co.uk /biographies.html (1587 words)

	Liberia Missing Persons: Re: Adrian Goldsworthy
		Posted by Michael Robinson on 19/2/2004, 14:15:32, in reply to "Adrian Goldsworthy"
		Adrian did not work for LAMCO his father Austen did and they all emmigrated from Camborne England to AUSTRALIA ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO AND I HAVE NOT HEARD FROM ADRIAN SINCE
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	Caesar's Civil War Adrian Goldsworthy
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