Lindsay Powell is fascinated by the under-reported personalities and events of history and believes their stories deserve to be told if our knowledge of the past is to be complete.
A historian, media communications professional and writer, Lindsay has a passion for the military history of the Roman Empire. He is a regular contributor to Ancient Warfare and has written for Military Heritage magazine and UNRV.com.
Informing his writings are the 10 years he spent with The Ermine Street Guard, the world’s leading reconstructive archaeology and re-enactment group for the Roman period. From that time he draws on the sights, sounds and smells he experienced first hand from a period soldier’s perspective.
He holds a bachelor of science degree from the University of Aston in Birmingham, England, and has taught adult education classes on life in Roman times. Lindsay divides his time between Austin, Texas and Wokingham, England.
The first account to be written in 2,000 years, it is the true tale of the heroic life and swashbuckling adventures of Emperor Claudius’ father, Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus – soldier, builder, explorer, statesman and role model for the Caesars.
In EAGER FOR GLORY: The Untold Story of Drusus the Elder, Conqueror of Germania Lindsay Powell has investigated ancient texts, inscriptions and coins, the latest findings from archaeology as well as insights from astronomy and medical science. to produce, for the first time in the modern era, a ground-breaking study of this true Roman hero.
Renowned author and illustrator Graham Sumner has written the foreword to the book in which he comments "this is the first biography of an important personality from the beginnings of Rome's empire and for which Lindsay is to be congratulated".
The exciting story of Drusus the Elder is published by Pen and Sword Books and will appeal to readers of adventure, biography, history, and warfare everywhere. You can order the book now at Amazon UK, Amazon Deutschland, Amazon France, Amazon USA, Barnes &Noble, BookPeople in Austin, Texas, Blackwells, Borders, Foyles of London, The Book Depository, Waterstones and WHSmith or direct from the publisher, Pen and Sword Books and through its US distributor Casemate.
All Things Under the Sun
Natural disasters, the financial crisis, political strife, the Middle East, the treatment of wounded soldiers, free and fair elections, foreign relations, sports results, travel delays, death and taxes...
The issues that make the headlines today are also the things people worried about 2,000 and more years ago. Learning how the people of the past dealt with them can prepare us to face the issues affecting us today.
The past is a virtual laboratory in which we can study how cause and effect plays out in different circumstances. Combining a researcher's skill at finding unexpected connections in everyday events and a historian's knowledge of source material, in ALL THINGS UNDER THE SUN: How Modern Ideas are Really Ancient Lindsay takes a clear eyed and often witty look at modern times through the longer perspective of ancient history and reveals that, as the old adage goes, 'all things under the Sun, there's nothing new'.
"A little gem of a book", says UNRV.com. "Powell's writings are delivered with erudition and wit." N.S. Gill of About.com writes "All Things Under the Sun bears comparison with some of the other recent works written for modern readers rather than classical historians, like Adrienne Mayor's Scorpion Bombs and Vicki Leon's How to Mellify a Corpse, that offer you a fast-paced, almost breathless tour of the ancient world".
The book is available now in paperback from Amazon and Lulu, and as an ebook from Amazon in the Kindle format, for NOOK and as an iTunes iBook.
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