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Warrior of Rome I: Fire in the East
Harry Sidebottom
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Description for Warrior of Rome I: Fire in the East
Paperback. One man is sent to marshal the defences and shore up crumbling walls. A man whose name itself means war: a man called Ballista. Alone, Ballista is called to muster the forces and the courage to stand first and to stand hard against the greatest enemy ever to confront the Imperium. Series: Warrior of Rome. Num Pages: 448 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 316.
Warrior of Rome is an epic of empire, heroes, treachery, courage, and most of all, a story of brutal bloody warfare.
The year is AD 255 - the Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged along every border.
The greatest threat lies in Persia to the east, where the massing forces of the Sassanid Empire loom with fiery menace. There the isolated Roman citadel of Arete awaits inevitable invasion.
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Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Warrior of Rome
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141032290
SKU
V9780141032290
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-70
About Harry Sidebottom
Dr Harry Sidebottom is a Fellow of St Benet's Hall and lecturer at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he specializes in ancient warfare and classical art. All six of his Warrior of Rome novels are available from Penguin in paperback and ebook.
Reviews for Warrior of Rome I: Fire in the East
'Sidebottom's prose blazes with searing scholarship' The Times 'A well-constructed, well-paced and gripping account' TLS 'The best sort of red-blooded historical fiction' - Andrew Taylor, author of 'The American Boy'