Hardcover
1976 · Baltimore
by Luttwak, Edward N.
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Hardcover. VG-/Fair; Clean, tight contents. Dj is solid but was mashed at top edge so now wrinkled but still very protective and in Mylar cover. Art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks.. Black cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Gold dj with black image and lettering. Mylar cover. xii + 255 pp. with maps and plans throughout, numbered by chapter. Contents include: The Julio-Claudian system : client states and mobile armies from Augustus to Nero -- From the Flavians to the Severi : "Scientific" frontiers and preclusive defense from Vespasian to Marcus Aurelius -- Defense-in-depth : the great crisis of the third century and the new strategies -- Epilogue : the three systems, an evalulation.
(Inventory #: 158007)