In the days of ancient Rome, it was never a good idea to send amateurs to pacify the Germanic tribes. The Emperor Augustus found this out in A.D. 9, when his handpicked crony, Varus, blundered into a ...

Hans-Peter Hasenfratz, trans. from the German by Michael Moynihan. Inner Traditions, $16.95 trade paper (176p) ISBN 9781594774218 First published in Germany in 1992, this study by Hasenfratz ...

How would you prepare for battle? If you were a Germanic warrior from Northern Europe during the Roman period, you may have sniffed some narcotics. A team of three Polish researchers, including ...

Countries and societies that were ethnically homogeneous, such as ancient Germanic tribes or modern Japan, felt that they were inherently more stable and secure than the alternative, whether late ...