Warrior of Rome, Part 1: Fire in the East - Hardcover

Sidebottom, Harry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0718153294 ISBN 13: 9780718153298

Publisher: Michael Joseph, 2008

Synopsis

AD 255 – the Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged throughout the territories and along every border. Yet the most lethal threat lurks far to the east in Persia, where the massing forces of the Sassanid Empire loom with fiery menace. The far-flung and isolated citadel of Arête faces out across the wasteland, awaiting the inevitable invasion.

One man is sent to marshall the defences of this lonely city – one man to shore up the crumbling walls of a once indomitable symbol of Roman power – 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.

In the bestselling tradition of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden, comes a block-busting voice in historical adventure fiction.

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Review:

A vivid, ract and gripping novel... from a major scholar who happens also to be a brilliant master of fiction. -- Dr Jas Elsner, Fellow of Archaeology and Classical Art, University of Oxford

Harry Sidebottom works on Rome's third century the magic that Patrick O'Brian applied to Nelson's navy. He has the touch of an exceptionally gifted story teller, drawing on prodigious learning. -- Timothy Severin, author of The Viking Trilogy

Harry brilliantly recontructs the life of the ancient world, and in particular its military technology, and wraps it in a powerful narrative whose themes are classic in more ways than one. It's the best sort of red-blooded historical fiction - solidly based on a profound understanding of what it meant to be alive in a particular and place. -- Andrew Taylor, author of The American Boy

In the third century AD the Roman empire was beginning its melt-down. It was horrible and violent. Harry Sidebottom's epic tale starts with a chilling assassination and goes on, and up, from there. -- Professor Mary Beard, Chair of Classics, University of Cambridge

Book Description:

`It's the best sort of red-blooded historical fiction - solidly based on a profound understanding of what it meant to be alive in a particular time and place'

About this edition

• Publisher: Michael Joseph
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0718153294
• ISBN 13: 9780718153298
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432