My survey book of the Roman army, Gladius, was published by Little, Brown in 2020, followed by my history of Egypt's 18th Dynasty, Pharaohs of the Sun, in July 2022. Since 2014 I have been writing for Yale University Press, producing The Real Lives of Roman Britain (2015), Praetorian (2017, and Domina (2018). Guy De la Bdoyre Gladius: Living, Fighting and Dying in the Roman Army Paperback Novemby Guy de la Bdoyre (Author) 187 ratings See all formats and editions Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 36.39 7 Used from 21.51 9 New from 34.19 Paperback 22.21 6 Used from 12.54 6 New from 16. One of my most popular books is Roman Britain. Although I have mainly written on the Romans, I have also been able to publish books on the seventeenth-century diarists John Evelyn and Samuel Pepys, and now ancient Egypt. Rather than a history of the army itself.

One of my great privileges is that being independent, as opposed to be tied to a university position, means I can pursue my interests in any direction they take me. In Gladius, Guy de la Bdoyre takes us straight to the heart of what it meant to be a part of the Roman army.

Living, Fighting, and Dying in the Roman Army (2020), and Pharaohs of the Sun. He appeared regularly on the UK’s Channel 4 archaeology series Time Team and is well known in the United States for his volume The Romans for Dummies. It was a privilege to be elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. Guy de la Bdoyre is author of a widely admired series of books on Roman history. In 1998 the Channel 4 TV series Time Team asked me to take part and I soon became a regular participant as 'Roman expert' between then and 2011. I worked for the BBC for most of the time between 19 but had started writing books on Roman Britain for Batsford by the late 1980s. Surveying numerous aspects of Roman military life between 264 BCE and 337 CE, De la Bdoyre draws not only on the words of famed Roman historians, but also those of the soldiers themselves, as recorded in their. I went to the Universities of Durham and London, studying History and Archaeology (including Egyptology), and took an MA in Archaeology at University College, London. In Gladiusthe Latin word for swordGuy De la Bdoyre reveals what it meant to be a soldier in the army that made the empire.

Gladius by Guy de la Bédoyère