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Roman - Sassanid conflicts
Gaiiten
Hello,
do you have any plans of publishing new books in the future dealing with the Roman-Sassanid conflict?
There are so many interesting conflicts, warriors, armies and major campaigns (battles and sieges) you could write dozen books.
Some examples:
* Battle of Edessa 260 AD - Capture of an Emperor - Campaign serie
* Julian the Apostata`s Persian Campaign 363 AD - Imperial Rome`s last offensive - Campaign serie
* Dara 530AD and Callinicum 531AD - Belisar`s victory and defeat - campaign serie
* Niniveh 628AD - Heraclius final triumph - campaign serie
* The Army of Justinian - MAA
* Justinian`s Enemies: Sassanid Persians - MAA
* Sassanian Sieges - From Ardashir I till Khosrow II - Elite
* Sassanian Fortresses - Fortress serie
* Daylami warriors 500AD - 1000AD - Warrior serie
Both "Sassanian Elite Cavalry" and "Shadows in the Desert" are among my most favourite Osprey books and I would like to read more.
Best regards
Andreas
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| Stimpious V |
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If such a series of books were to be published, I would buy them all!
I'd also like to see 'Campaign' books on the Siege of Constantinople of 626, when the Eastern Empire held off the combined forces of the Sassanid Empire and the Avars; and the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah, when the Sassanid Empire fell to the Arabs. The Eastern Roman and Sassanid Empires get so little coverage for some reason.
Posted: 20-Apr-2009 06:43
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| crimean |
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Gaiiten has put up a great list of potential books Osprey could cover concerning this topic. I would be very interested as well in these books. I would like to add Carrhae 53 BC as a potential campaign book Osprey could consider, as it involves the Romans going up against another eastern foe, the Parthians. It would also be great if Osprey could cover the battle of al-Qadisiyyah as it signalled the end of the Sassanids.
Posted: 20-Apr-2009 19:16
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| Byzance |
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I would also be a buyer and I have suggested some of these books for years to Osprey. It seems that they cannot find authors for these topics. A book on Byzantine fortresses would also be captivating as they are dozens of them in present day Turkey.
Posted: 20-Apr-2009 19:54
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| Osprey Editor |
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There are certainly lots of ideas to think about here, thank you for putting them forward. I think there is potential to add to MAA 175 ‘Romes Enemies (3) Parthians and Sassanid Persians’. At the moment there are no immediate plans to for the above ideas, but I am sure my colleagues would be pleased to look over them and see if they are workable.
Posted: 22-Apr-2009 11:06
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| Gaiiten |
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Hello,
thank you for your kind response.
Due publications as MAA 175 I got very interested in the Sassanians, however, meanwhile especially that book is somewhat outdated.
IMHO Osprey is especially well-known for covering of many historical events, realms, people et cetera not standing in the big spotlight.
So I stay tuned and look forward to possible future publications.
Best regards
Andreas
Posted: 23-Apr-2009 13:52
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| Draconifer |
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I like you listed the proposed campaign titles in Osprey format.
Those battle were very dramatic for their time.
Excellent potential for striking visuals as far as battle scenes
and aftermath.
The devestating Battle of Carrhae, though a Parthian victory, is also timely.
I would think the Parthian and Sassanian dynasties
are something of a cultural iconoclast for the classicists.
They were the bane of Rome among us.
It should serve as a timely cautionary tale and a title is long overdue.
Posted: 18-May-2009 01:03
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| Osprey Editor |
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Hello - if you are interested in the Battle of Carrhae, please take part in this month's book vote (see right)!
Posted: 19-May-2009 10:05
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| Gaiiten |
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Somehow I have gotten the imagination that many people are not interested in the history of these two great Iranian realms because they were so successful in defying Rome and Rome had to suffer many of their most bitter defeats against them.
Posted: 28-May-2009 13:45
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| Draconifer |
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Yes and no. The Britons and "Picts" were no friends of
Rome either. That is a statue of Boudicca of the Iceni on the Thames
not Imperator Clauidius.
The defeats of Crassus and Julian serve as timely cautionary tales.
The accounts of the battles act as iconoclast to classisicsts
who idolise Rome. It is interesting that there is renewed interest in these
conflicts.
Posted: 29-May-2009 06:28
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| Draconifer |
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Actually 'Gaiiten" there are currently more Osprey titles featuring
Roman defeats and enemies rather than their victories.
These titles include Cannae,Adrianople,Yarmuk, and Constantinople.
I include the Eastern Empire of the Romioi/Byzantine.
There also cover scenes featuring the massacres of Teutoburg Wald.
Civil war titles I don't count as a Roman victory obviously.
If you interpret them as "defeats" than Rome has gotten quite a
bad treatment.
Notice there is not a battle of Zama title for example.
The Spartacus title was a victory albeit a pyrrhic one, with Carrhae looming for Crassus.
Posted: 29-May-2009 06:44
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