The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

In the year 9 A.D., three Roman legions commanded by Publius Quinctilius Varus were lured into an ambush set by Germanic tribes and completely obliterated – a heavy blow for the Roman Empire and its expansionist ambitions in Germania. This book gives an expert overview of the so-called Varian Disaster and the background to it, as well as the textual and archaeological evidence of this historically important event.