Rome's Greatest Emperor: Vespasian

Follow Vespasian’s rise from Roman general in Britain to emperor, shaping the Flavian dynasty during Rome's turbulent civil war. To anyone scanning the sea from the southern coast of Britain in the year 43 AD, the sight of hundreds of ships appearing one by one as dots on the horizon would have filled them with awe and dread. On a leading warship, a hundred and twenty oarsmen heaved at their work as one of the four legionary legates scanned the cliff tops expecting to see them lined with warrior