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...
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