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\'A COMPANION TO THE ROMAN ARMY\', Help needed!
#1
Hi

Is there anyone out there wealthy enough to have bought a copy of Erdkamp, P. (Ed.) (2007): A Companion to the Roman Army, Oxford ?

At the moment I am working on an article and need a page reference to the mention of military clothing. I looked at it when I was last in Foyles bookshop and think there is only a single paragraph on clothing in the whole book! Sadly I have never been able to afford to buy a copy myself and I do not have the time left to get to a library to look for the reference myself.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.

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#2
Hi Graham!

The index lists the following references to clothing:
PP; 83, 90-91 ( briefly under "equipment"), 124,27,309-31 ( brief reference to discussion of deductions for clothing in "finances and costs" section),314,465,524,541.
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
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PM replied to......
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)

"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
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#4
Hi Graham,

I quickly went through the publication and the only part devoted to clothing is a short paragraph on page 227. Then there is a short part on pages 230-231 discussing deductions from pay for clothing, etc. The rest seem to be just mentions here and there.

Greetings
Alexandr
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#5
Quote:I looked at it when I was last in Foyles bookshop and think there is only a single paragraph on clothing in the whole book!

Be grateful. That's pretty much all military equipment gets. A bizarrely off-kilter (and absurdly over-priced) book: what I call CSE literature (Curate's Scrambled Egg) ;-) )

Mike Bishop
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#6
Thanks Chaps

That was the information I needed.

Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.

"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.

"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
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#7
A bit late, Graham, but it's out in paperback in December, for the reasonable sum of £28 odd. Big Grin

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Companion-Roman ... 782&sr=8-1
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