Parthians: The Empire That Beat Rome and Was Never Conquered

Forty thousand Romans marched into the Mesopotamian desert. By the next nightfall their army had ceased to exist — destroyed by a force a quarter its size that contained no infantry at all.The Parthian commander at Carrhae did not get lucky. He executed a doctrine: horse archers who refused to close, a camel train of spare arrows so the volleys never stopped, and armoured cataphracts held back for...