Boudica: The Life of Britain's Legendary Warrior Queen (Hardcover) by Vanessa Collingridge

from beadinggem

Well written and highly readable. The author did research the topic well but the focus of her book is the legend behind the woman and the impact this warrior queen had for the past 2000 years. The chapters about Boudicca herself start only after half the book.

from Meggo

The problem with writing a biography about Boudica is that there's virtually nothing in the way of evidence on which a full-length book can be based. After all, her reign, if in fact she did reign, lasted only a year, a mere blink in the span of ages. As a result, this book is also the story of t...

from

A bit of a mixed bag. This 400 pager is not really a biography of Boudica in the traditional sense of the term. Indeed, little in the way of hard fact is known about the actual events of her life - or rather of the last year or so of her life that we know about from Tacitus and Cassius Dio - so o...

from Daumari

The first I'd heard of Boudica (or Boadicea as it was spelled then) was in the Eagle Eye Mysteries in London edutainment game- one of the Eagles' friends wrote a song inspired by her. Popped up again when I signed up for the library's winter reading program, which had a time-traveling theme- read...

from MarysGirl

This book covers almost the same territory as Boudica: Iron Age Warrior Queen and contains several quotes from that author Richard Hingley. The major exception being that Collingridge goes further back in time to Rome and Caesar to study their attitudes toward women in society as a backdrop for h...