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    Publius Quinctilius Varus The Man Who Lost Three Roman Legions in the Teutoburg Disaster

    Feb 16, 2024 3 minutes

    By Joanne Ball

    ISBN: 978-399088329

    Pen & Sword Military (2023) - £25.00

    www.pen-and-sword.co.uk

    In this new volume from Pen & Sword, Joanne Ball seeks to explore the ‘old chestnut’ of the , the Varian, or Teutoburg, disaster of AD 9. She admits in the first sentence of her Acknowledgements that it was a ‘massive undertaking’ (p. vi) and a culmination of twenty years of fascination. She opens the Introduction by talking about the massive impact of the disaster. Ball admits,

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