Adrian Murdoch will be at Alderney Literary Festival on Saturday 21st March from 3:30-4:30pm giving a talk on 'Bringing the Dead of Herculaneum to Life' followed by a Q & A session. He will also be signing copies of his book, Rome's Greatest Defeat: Massacre in the Teutoburg Forest.
In September AD 9 half of Rome's Western army was ambushed in a German forest. Three legions, comprising some 25,000 men under the Roman general Varus, were wiped out by an army of Germanic tribes under the leadership of Arminius. This book offers an account of this battle, the historical background, and the implications of defeat.