Garrison Life at Vindolanda: a Band of Brothers.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Anthony Birley. Garrison Life at Vindolanda: a Band of Brothers. Charleston, S. C.: Tempus Publishing; dist. by Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, S. C. 2002. Pp. 192. $26.99 paper. ISBN 0-7524-1950-1.

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers." Invoking Shakespeare's St. Crispin's Day speech from Henry V, Anthony Birley sets the tone for what is to follow. His Garrison Life at Vindolanda: a Band of Brothers deftly pieces together the evidence from an unparalleled cache of documents recovered from the site of Vindolanda in northern England. The result is an intimate ...

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