“An outstanding general study of the Roman military system. . . . The best one-volume treatment of the subject now in existence.”—Historian The Roman army

The Emperor Augustus believed that the Roman army occupied a crucial lace at the heart of the empire and it was he who made it a fully professional force. This

Discusses the way of life, training, and equipment of the Roman army and examines the duties of officers and soldiers of the legion

The Roman imperial army represented one of the main factors in the exercise of political control by the emperors. The effective political management of the army

No book on Roman history has attempted to do what Stephen Dando-Collins does in Legions of Rome: to provide a complete history of every Imperial Roman legion an