The Bar Kokhba War AD 132-136: The Last Jewish Revolt Against Imperial Rome
(Part of the Osprey Campaign (#310) Series and Osprey Campaign (#310) Series)
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Accounts of history's greatest conflicts, detailing the command strategies, tactics and battle experiences of the opposing forces throughout the crucial stages of each campaign, In AD 132, Shim'on ben Koseba, a rebel leader who assumed the messianic name Shim'on bar Kokhba ('Son of a Star'), led the people of ludaea in open rebellion, aiming to establish their own independent Jewish state and to liberate Jerusalem from the Romans. During the ensuing Bar Kokhba War (also known as the Second Jewish War), the Jewish insurgents held their own for three-and-a-half years against the crack Roman troops sent by Emperor Hadrian. The cost of this rebellion was catastrophic: hundreds of thousands of casualties, the destruction and enslavement of Jewish communities and a ban on Jews entering Jerusalem. Bar Kokhba was the last leader of a Jewish state before the rise of Zionism in modern times, and this fully illustrated new history relates the events and assesses the impact of this violent rebellion against Rome. Book jacket.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1472817982
ISBN13:9781472817983
Release Date:July 2017
Publisher:Osprey Publishing (UK)
Length:96 Pages
Weight:0.70 lbs.
Dimensions:0.2" x 7.3" x 9.8"
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