Duncan B. Campbell is a scholar of

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and

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warfare. He published his first paper in 1984, as an undergraduate at the

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, Scotland, and produced a complete re-assessment of Roman siegecraft for his PhD. Besides academic articles, he has written several other popular books about ancient warfare, chiefly siegecraft, published by

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. He is a regular contributor to ''

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'' magazine and a frequent reviewer for ''

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''. He has published a new edition, with English translation, of the Roman military source known as the '' Liber de munitionibus castrorum'', and a new edition, with English translation and detailed commentary, of the '' Ektaxis kat' Alanōn'' of Arrian.Duncan B. Campbell, ''Deploying a Roman Army: The ''Ektaxis kat' Alanōn'' of Arrian'' (2022).

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External links

Duncan B Campbell's website

Author's page at Academia

Author's page at Good Reads

Meet the Author page at Karwansaray Publishers

Author biography at Osprey Publishing

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Glasgow {{UK-historian-stub