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When the Romans occupied the southern half of Britain in AD 43, the Iceni tribe quickly allied themselves with the invaders. Having paid tribute to Rome, they continued to be ruled by their own kings. But 17 years later, when Prasutagus, the king of the Iceni, died, the Romans decided to incorporate his kingdom into the new province. When his widow Boudicca protested, she "was flogged and their daughters raped", sparking one of the most famous rebellions in history. This book tells how Boudicca raised her people and other tribes in revolt, overran the provincial towns of Camulodunum (Colchester), Londinium (London) and Verulamium (St Albans), destroyed the IX Legion, and nearly took control of the fledgling Roman province, before being finally brought to heel in a pitched battle at Mancetter.
- Sales Rank: #581421 in Books
- Brand: Osprey
- Published on: 2011-04-19
- Released on: 2011-04-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.83" h x .32" w x 7.30" l, .68 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 96 pages
About the Author
Dr. Nic Fields started his career as a biochemist before joining the Royal Marines. Having left the military, he went back to University and completed a BA and PhD in Ancient History at the University of Newcastle. He was Assistant Director at the British School at Athens, Greece, and then a lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh. Nic is now a freelance author and researcher based in south-west France.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Interesting, but Lots of Padding
By R. A Forczyk
In the past six months, Osprey has published no less than three Campaign series titles on Roman campaigns fought in the First Century AD - I would say they have that century pretty well covered now. Dr. Nic Fields' Boudicca's Rebellion AD 60-61 is one of these three. Boudicca - a queen of the Iceni tribe in southeastern England - elected to lead her people in rebellion against their Roman occupiers and after a brief spell of success, were promptly annihilated. The main issue with this book, which is common in Ancient history, is lack of sources and hard data. Virtually everything we know about this campaign is based upon a few pages from Cassius Dio and Tacitus, neither of which are particularly detailed. The exact location of the battlefield and even specific information about Boudicca are unknown, which forces the author to try and fill in the numerous gaps with artfully-reasoned conjecture. At times, the author seems too willing to engage in diversionary soliloquies comparing ancient and modern perspectives on warfare and women, which is annoying. Overall, Boudicca's Rebellion is interesting, although with the actual information in hand, it is a tale that is told in less than twenty pages and the rest is essentially padding.
The author begins with a rather long-winded introduction that lays out the basis of the clash between Roman and Iceni in Britain, but does so in a very roundabout way. To be honest, I hated this introduction, since it does not serve very well as a springboard for the campaign and the author devolves into too much subjective commentary. He offers up nuggets such as, "soldiers, no matter when or where they serve, seem inclined to sexual carnality (civilians are therefore asexual?)" and "soldiers...have more than a smidgen of larceny in their souls." So, according to this author, soldiers by definition are inclined to be rapists and thieves. This shows very poor historical writing form and is driven by stereotypes rather than fact. How does the author know that Boudicca's daughters were raped by Roman soldiers and not some petty bureaucrat (or lawyer)? This is not how you write history. This section does include two nice maps depicting the tribes in Britain in AD 60 and the location of Roman forts.
The section on opposing commanders is a throwaway, since the author spends a page discussing Boudicca before admitting, "we actually know nothing about Boudicca." He then spends three pages on the Roman governor, of whom we know slightly more than nothing. The 15 page section on opposing armies should have been better, but it isn't. It does have some nifty pictures of weapons and Roman re-enactors, but the author's description of Celtic tactics is based upon generalities and his description of the Roman Army reads like a management organization chart. If one could summarize, this section would say something like: the Romans won because they were a professional army and the Celts were not. I would add, Roman discipline and superior tactics (use of reserves) made up for lack of numbers. However, while these observations are more or less correct, they don't add much. Indeed, they might not even be correct. Given our lack of hard information on this campaign, there may well have been other specific factors that contributed to the end result (e.g. illness, luck, religious factors). If we knew this little about the Battle of Midway in 1942, we would know that the Japanese had a big fleet but were defeated by a smaller American fleet, without knowledge of US code-breaking or faulty Japanese operational planning.
The campaign narrative itself is 37-pages long, but with barely 20 pages of text. Furthermore, most of this section covers the outbreak of the rebellion, initial rebel victories and the concurrent Roman campaign in Wales, with only 10 pages covering the show-down between the Romans and Boudicca. Nevertheless, this section is interesting and well-written and serves to redeem this volume. The four battlescenes by Peter Dennis, four maps and lots of color photos also add to the splendor. Dr. Fields may not have much to work with, but the Osprey art staff sure helped him to fill in those potholes. The final battle is anti-climatic. Once again, the Romans demonstrated that the best form of warfare is strategic offensive coupled with tactical defense. Boudicca's horde smashed itself to pieces against two Roman legions and they she disappeared from the pages of history. The aftermath section is also a bit weak, since other than mentioning post-campaign Roman punitive measures, it doesn't say too much about Roman Britain in the decade after the rebellion. I felt that the whole diplomatic-economic angles were missing and that the picture of the rebellion presented here is somewhat one-dimensional. The author also seems to inject some Modern prejudices by suggesting that the Romans were "cruel," which ignores the fact that plenty of organized cruelty has occurred in modern times. Despite all my criticisms, I would still say that this volume is worth a read by anyone interested in Roman military history, but compared to a Battle like the Teutobergerwald, it lacks real detail.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Brings nothing new to table
By Graves
The truth behind the famous uprising of the Iceni will most likely never be known. Not only did the victors, the Romans, write the histories but the British tribe that struck terror into them were not a literate people. They left no written records at all. This would make any book on the subject difficult but somehow Nic Fields' "Bouddicca's Rebellion" seems to make the matter worse.
To be fair Mr. Field's knows his stuff and his Roman sources and that ultimately may be the problem. Far too much of his work is recounting needless Roman history. I understand the need to know the background, but for example in the section where the two leaders are introduced, pages 22-23 cover the Roman commander's actions *after* the war and about 1/3 of page 21 is dedicated to a General who *may* have been a rival of the Roman commander but fell foul of Nero and....who cares? It doesn't apply to this subject. For this history of a war in the 1st century CE we have no need to know that the Celts were a bronze age people living in the Upper Danube in 1300 BC any more than we would need to know what George Patton's ancestors were doing a millenia before he fought his way across France in a book about WW2. Far too much of nearly the first third of the book is like this. A map shows forts and fortresses without explaining what, the difference is. One gets the feeling Fields wants to write a more scholarly work on the days of Nero and is using this as his test pattern.
Because of the lack of surviving Celtic records much of Fields' writing about them is based on archeology and Roman writings, BUT he writes them from that, presenting these views and their sources as theirs not his, as if you want to challenge him, go pick a dispute with them, not him. I've tried, Tacitus doesn't return my calls. There is no sense that Mr. fields' wants to put his interpretation on the facts available when he can just present the facts others have found and let the reader try to do the work.
I may be coming across as a bit harsh but I really didn't enjoy this. I couldn't get past the fact that Fields seemed more intent of showing off his scholarship than writing out the history. Each time he went off on as meaningless tangent I found myself saying "get on with it."
These Osprey books are supposed to be an introduction to the item, not the final word, but it should give a good overview that might encourage the curious student to look a little deeper. In the end all Fields did was encourage me to dig up my own copy of Tacitus and read, again, it for myself. Not because Fields whet my appetite but from frustration sake I want to read an account by a better writer!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Academic and good
By JPS
I was a bit surprised by the two types of - not necessarily consistent - criticism that this Osprey title has attracted. In my view, it is one of the better ones in the ever expanding collection of titles.
The first criticism, found on Amazon.co.uk, was to take this little volume and its author to task because it is "academic". It is, but then these titles are meant to be about a historical campaign and I have never expected these titles to read like historical novels. That does not seem to the intention of the collection and it is probably not what they are supposed to be. In addition, the criticism of being "academic" seems somewhat harsh and perhaps a bit unfair. I am not quite sure that readers would find many pictures of re-enactors in Roman arms and armour in a so-called "academic" book on the Roman Army, for instance.
The second criticism, this time to be found in reviews on Amazon.com, was to say that "there was nothing new" in the book or that there was lots of padding. These two are perhaps even more unfair.
It is rather difficult, not to say quite impossible, to write something about the Boudicca rebellion without, beforehand, providing context. This is something that all Osprey campaign titles do, or, to be accurate, all of the ones that I have read (meaning several dozen although I stopped counting a long time ago). So, unsurprisingly, the reader will get treated to a summary of the first contacts with the Romans, of the Roman invasion, of the conquest and of the Romans in Britain from AD 43 onwards. There may be a point about the padding however. The introduction and the last section of the book contain what I would rather have put under the broad term of "general considerations and generalities" on war (in the introduction) and on "lost causes" that become legends. If this is what is alluded to, then I definitely agree. This is a bit of a problem because it does seem to add much to the book. It even feels somewhat lame and unnecessary and got easily have been avoided.
I cannot agree with those that take exception with the criticism about the title providing "nothing new". Few Osprey Campaign titles do, if any, partly because of their limited format and partly because this does not seem to be the objective. Rather, it is to present in an entertaining but concise and affordable format a comprehensive summary of a historical campaign. Besides, the topic itself - the Boudicca rebellion - is anything but original: dozens of "academic" books and articles have been published on this event and perhaps as many novels. Being original while writing a piece of history in a way that is entertaining and accessible to all therefore becomes something like "Mission Impossible" and it is probably not the intention to begin with.
Despite the first couple of pages and part of the last section, I found that this was a good and solid title. I was perhaps not among the very best, but it ticked most of my boxes. You do get a rather good explanation of the causes of the rebellion, both in the section on "A tale of two communities" and in the section on the storming of Coldchester-Camulodunum (where you are treated with a nice presentation of the coloniae, of their functions, and how they were generally founded. The land was grabbed by the victors from the vanquished and given to the veteran legionaries as they retired. Unsurprisingly, the surviving locals did not appreciate too much. The sections on opposing commanders, armies and plans are also standard. Not stellar perhaps, but good and containing probably all of the main elements that a reader with little or no previous background in the period needs to know to fully understand the campaign itself. The destruction of the three main Roman settlements are then presented one after the other in chronological order, followed by what was happening with the main Roman force fighting off in Wales and busy conquering Mona- Anglesey. It is only after this (as of page 66) that we get to the main battle and the crushing Roman victory, the victory of methodical and ruthless order and discipline against a much higher number of "rebels" (according to the Romans, of course) who lacked discipline and over which the same kind of control could simply not be exercised by the Iceni Queen.
There is perhaps one thing that could be a bit of a problem, although it was difficult to nail down. The impression I got when reading the piece on the battle was that the Britons did not stand a chance. It is purely subjective, but it made me wonder. To some extent, Boudicca seems to have completely out-generalled and was forced to fight on a battlefield chosen by her enemy and under conditions that negated almost all of her advantages, in particular the advantage in numbers. The fight, however, seems to have bitter, hard and possibly quite long. It does not seem to have been a walk-over although the book, at times, did give me this impression.
On top of all this, the reader is treated to a rather nice collection of plates. Some - the last stand of the veterans in Claudius' temple at Camulodunum and the ambush and destruction of Cerialis' detachment of the 9th Legion Hispana - were particularly good. The first of the two and the photos of the skulls found during excavations at that colony were somewhat original, for me at least. So, worth four stars, but not five.
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