Boudicca

by Peter Somerset Fry

Boudicca, the famous warrior queen of the Iceni, was the only Celtic ruler ever to challenge with any success the Roman government in Britain. In the space of a few months in the year 60 A.D., she led an army of 100,000 strong, destroying three Roman cities. When she was finally brought to pitched battle y the Roman governor, her forces were routed - in despair she committed suicide.This is what we actually know from historical descriptions of Boudicca's revold, the rest of her life must largely be guesswork. In this book, Plantagenet Somerset Fry reconstructs the life storyy of the first British champion of freedom. Her campaign to expel the Romans from her country failed, but it has left its mark as one of the most dramatic events of all British history.

118 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1978