No comments about Rome (A Holiday magazine travel guide).

No comments about Rome Map.

No comments about Michelin Rome.

No comments about Private Rome.

No comments about Heart of Rome (Tapeguide Series / Cassette and Map).

No comments about Turner in the South: Rome, Naples, Florence (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis).

1 comments about Citypack Rome (2nd ed).

1. This book was an excellent guide to Rome especially if you have only a short time to visit. This book gives you the best places to visit and stay and comes with an easy to read map of Rome. We found it very useful and never left the hotel without it!

1 comments about Rome on the Euphrates.

1. In this book, Freya Stark recites her travels in the Middle East as she stops near the important cities and battlefields that marked the fluctuating borders between Rome and Parthia. A good scholarly presentation that is backed by strong historical evidence and research.
   
   The book reviews Rome's first contact with Parthia under Sulla in the early 1st century B.C. to the time of the Byzantines and the Sassanians. Stark argues that the Euphrates river marked the geo-political limits of each empire and that incessant warfare between them was only a waste of resources as neither had the ability of expanding any further. Stark also covers how the military tactics of each state were a disadvantage against their enemies. Rome's strongest military asset was its infantry and its ability to conduct extended sieges but the legions were slow, with limited range, and vulnerable to cavalry. Parthia's main asset was its heavy cavalry and archers that could cover vast distances rapidly. The Parthian empire was a disadvantage to Roman legions as the territory was vast and primarily suited for cavalry engagements: legions such as Crassus' at Carrhae could easily be outmanevered, enveloped, and crushed. Parthia's cavalry on the other hand was of little use in confined territories and even less useful in laying sieges: Parthian invasions into Roman territories therefore tended to be short and more akin to raids and skirmishes than full invasions.
   
   This is a good book on studying the frontier between Rome and Parthia and how it affected both empires. Stark's arguments are well supported by historical texts and other evidence: her research is sound. The book is not a scholarly lecture or dissertation and so can be read by someone who has little to no knowledge of Roman history.

No comments about Rome Insight Travel Map.

No comments about Rick Steves' Rome 2002.