Dacia - The Roman Wars Volume I

This book, which has been both written and beautifully illustrated by Ancient Warfare magazine's Radu Oltean, details the history of Rome's wars in Dacia. Besides spectacular illustrations, it also includes a number of maps and photographs of relevant archaeological site and finds.

Besides the unusually rich illustrations (over 190 colored images: illustrations, artifacts, maps, monuments), this book offers a fresh view on the Dacian-Roman wars, trying to eliminate as much as possible from the ideological nationalist ballast that came to burden the Romanian view of history. I gathered and adapted most archaeological findings and historical studies, old and new, for a wider public of history lovers. I avoided too much speculation on events that remain unclear for history, but I made frequent use of words like "perhaps" and "probably". On occasion, I ventured possible scenarios for the rare instances when historical or archaeological sources were more generous. Some readers may be surprised to discover that events or their interpretation are not at all as learned in school or seen in dramatized movies, in old books and magazines or even in certain museums. What is shown in this book is my attempt to come closer to a historical truth we all search for (at least declaratively).