07-08-2014, 07:08 PM
I didnt read Batty's book (who I saw is not a historian but a professor of economics at a Tokyo University) but on my wanderings on the internet I came across a short critic of his book published in The Journal of Military History by Everett L. Wheeler who I understand is a reputed military historian.
So I wont consider Roger Batty's book a good one, it have quite few flaws, mistakes and holes in it. The critics I read was mostly about Dacians and Danube area and Roman wars and people there but Wheeler found quite few big mistakes (or Batty apparently dont know some things or misinterpreted them and twist them) which make thing he isnt a very good source
So I wont consider Roger Batty's book a good one, it have quite few flaws, mistakes and holes in it. The critics I read was mostly about Dacians and Danube area and Roman wars and people there but Wheeler found quite few big mistakes (or Batty apparently dont know some things or misinterpreted them and twist them) which make thing he isnt a very good source
Razvan A.
