Hello and welcome to another episode of the Ancient Warfare Podcast. My name is Jasper Ortiz. I'm the editor of

of Ancient Warfare magazine and with me today is a full crowd. We have Lindsay Powell, Mark McCaffrey,

Mark DeSantis and Murray Dom, the assistant editor of ancient warfare. Today, as we've not got a regular issue of the magazine to discuss, but we do have the

holidays coming up.

We thought we just, you know, as we do periodically have another look at what good books we've read,

what good books we might suggest to you or suggest to each other that we might want to read

over the holidays or maybe hope to find in our preferably substantial socks on Christmas

morning. And so, yeah, we're just going to talk some books because we all still like to read.

Who would like to kick off with a book that they've read recently,

or they've maybe just seen a review of and they go, ah, I want to read that,

or it's far too expensive.

I hope Sento just gives it to me.

I get in trouble because I buy my own presents because no one would think to buy me an ancient warfare title

because they would either think a they don't know enough about the subject and I would have

bought it myself already or B which is probably true which is true so yeah so so I tend to buy my own

um I'm going to start with this one, which is Roman decorated armor.

Decorated Roman armor.

Don't get those words around the wrong way.

From the age of the kings to the death of Justinian the Great, which is basically an

exploration of decorated Dharma, as it says on the box, but also with lots and lots of photos

and illustrations of iconography, so where the decorations are now to come from,

and then lots of plates, color plates as well. That's going to be an interesting read.

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