Rome's Greatest Emperor: Vespasian

“It's smoothly written and I learned -- or perhaps re-learned -- about the efforts and exploits of Vespasian, especially when it came to stabilizing the economy.” -Historical Miniatures Gaming Society

To anyone scanning the sea from the southern coast of Britain in the year 43 AD, the sight of hundreds of ships appearing one by one as dots on the horizon would have filled them with awe and dread. On a leading warship, a hundred and twenty oarsmen heaved at their work as one of the four legio...