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Celtic warriors served as mercenaries in many armies of the classical period. While lacking roman organizational structure and engineering capabilities, the warriors proved more than a match for rome on many occasions. The osprey men at arms book series by multiple authors includes books the american provincial corps 177584 menatarms, the arab legion menatarms, argyll and sutherland highlanders menatarms, and several more. See the complete osprey men at arms series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. You get a basic sense of the weapons, mindset, and intercultural interactions of the celtic warrior during the early iron age. A curse has been cast over emain macha, the boreal land of ireland, laying all but one man into a deep sleep. Part of the menatarms series, this book looks at angloceltic warfare. Cletic warrior is a fantastic book to expand your knowledge, as are allof this series from osprey. As with all the osprey books or the very similar menatarms series, this is a decent introduction to the topic, without being overly detailed. In fact, in ancient ireland, the druids were called forth as men of art and accorded.