M.C. Bishop: Roman Plate Armour: 247 (Elite) [2022] paperback ZGEND Meet the unsung heroines of

Meet the unsung heroines of British history who refused to play by the rules

some intense bitchiness too

Lucy Fly - a young

at times funny

Packed with detail and written with a strong and involving narrative thread

M.C. Bishop: Roman Plate Armour: 247 (Elite) [2022] paperback ZGEND Meet the unsung heroines ofFully illustrated, this book investigates the articulated plate armour worn by Roman legionaries. First named by Renaissance historians studying the reliefs on Trajan's Column, lorica segmentata evaded successful attempts to reconstruct it until a series of important archaeological finds in the 20th century revealed how it worked and the truth of its extended chronology. The earliest finds date from the late 1st century BC, and its discovery at