War at the Edge of the World
Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Paperback Published on: 02/07/2015
£7.99
Synopsis
AN EMPIRE IN DECLINE. Centurion Aurelius Castus - once a soldier in the elite legions of the Danube - believes his glory days are over, as he finds himself in the cold, grey wastes of northern Britain, battling to protect an empire in decline. Here he must face the barbarians beyond Hadrian's Wall, in a mission riven with bloodshed and treachery. Can Castus keep his promise to a woman he has sworn to help? And is anything about this doomed enterprise what it seems? WAR AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD is the epic first instalment in a sequence of novels set at the end of the Roman Empire, during the reign of the Emperor Constantine.
- Publisher: Head of Zeus
- ISBN: 9781784081140
- Number of pages: 416
- Weight: 314g
- Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 27 mm
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Imagine yourself in Aurelius' boots
Not my usual reading choice but a captivating account of one soldiers experience of battle and politics in Ancient Roman Britain.
Where emperors are made
Aurelius Castus, Roman centurion, is that sort of stolid, tough, illiterate, Pannonian peasant soldier upon which the Roman Empire came to depend in the Fo... READ MORE
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