The Battle That Stopped Rome

In AD 9, a barbarian army trapped & slaughtered three legions: 20,000 men, half the Roman army in Europe. If not for this, the Empire would've expanded to the Elbe, maybe eastward into present-day Russia. After the defeat, Rome ended efforts to expand past the Rhine. It became a fixed border between Rome & Germania for 400 years & remains a cultural border between Latin western Europe & Germanic central & eastern Europe. This narrative introduces key protagonists: Augustus, most powerful of the Caesars; Varus, wrong man in the wrong place; & the barbarian Arminius, the 1st German hero. In graphic detail, based on recent archaeological finds, Wells leads readers through the mud & blood that was the Battle of Teutoburg Forest.