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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Rome cast them out. The desert swallowed the Eagles at Carrhae, and the legionaries who survived became slaves, then mercenaries, then ghosts of an empire that will never send for them. At the edge of the known world, deep in the steppe beyond the Silk Road, Tribune Rufinius and the remnants of his cohort have carved out something like a home - in the service of Zhizhi, self-styled Chanyu of all Xiongnu, a warlord whose ambition is matched only by his cruelty.But loyalty bought with steel is loyalty on loan. Zhizhi's own brother, Huhanye, has thrown in his lot with the golden throne of Han and claimed as his bride the most celebrated beauty in the Forbidden City - Wang Zhaojun, a concubine whose portrait has become an empire's obsession, and whose heart is not as settled as her marriage. As the rival Chanyus circle one another and Chin sharpens its spears for a reckoning generations in the making, Rufinius is drawn into a game of empires spanning four peoples and a thousand li of frozen plain.At his side is Lucia - once a slave, now his wife, and the one thing left he cannot afford to lose. Between them and survival stand duels fought bare-chested on the ice, a harem seething with poison and ambition, old blood debts, and a Roman discipline that may yet save this broken legion - or be the death of every man in it.Grounded in one of history's most tantalizing mysteries - the lost legion of Carrhae, and the Chinese chronicles that may have glimpsed them one last time - Blood & Empire is a sweeping, sensual, brutal journey through the ancient world's collision of empires. For readers of Conn Iggulden and Robert Harris, this is historical fiction at full gallop: love and war, loyalty and betrayal, fought at the edge of a gladius. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 53 BC. On the sun-scorched plains of Mesopotamia, Marcus Licinius Crassus, the richest man in Rome, marches forty thousand legionaries into Parthia in search of the one thing his fortune could never buy him: military glory to rival Caesar and Pompey.He finds annihilation instead. Led by the brilliant Parthian general Surenas, an enemy force a fraction of the legions' size will encircle and destroy them with an endless, merciless rain of arrows, exposing Crassus's arrogance and Rome's own blind faith in the invincibility of the legion.At Carrhae, Parthian horse archers and armored cataphracts tear the legions apart on ground of their own choosing. Crassus's son Publius falls on his own sword rather than be taken. Crassus himself is dead within days, the golden ending the old stories always warned him about. Of the proud army that marched east, ten thousand men are killed. Ten thousand more are taken alive.Among the survivors is Tullus Bassius Rufinius, a young non-commissioned officer who has never led anything larger than a single contubernium, and Appias Cominius Maro, the campaign's reluctant historian, dragged along to record a triumph that never came. When the officers who should have led them are dead, it falls to Rufinius to hold the survivors together through a death march across the desert and into slavery.Sold like cattle in the markets of the east, the legionaries are marched further still, deep into the territory of the Xiongnu, a nomadic empire that has never seen anything like the discipline of a Roman shield wall. There, Rufinius and his men are handed a brutal choice: die as slaves, or fight as mercenaries for a foreign king who owns them body and soul.What follows is a story of survival against impossible odds, of a woman who becomes far more than the disguise she hides behind, of an old prophecy that promises Rufinius will live forever, and of a ragged legion with no homeland, no emperor, and no way home, forging an identity that is no longer entirely Roman and not yet anything else.Rufinius quickly proves he is more than a fighter. He is a leader men will follow into a country whose name they cannot pronounce, and a husband to a woman whose survival has depended on being someone she is not. Around him gathers the remnant of his old contubernium, foul-mouthed and battle-scarred, more loyal to each other than to any eagle standard, and it is this small brotherhood, as much as Rufinius himself, that carries the emotional weight of the novel through slave markets, frozen sieges, and the intrigue of a foreign king's court. Appias, meanwhile, survives less by the sword than by his wit, his pen, and his gift for making himself useful to whoever currently owns him, and it is through his eyes, decades later and half a world away, that this entire story is finally set down.Field of Mars is inspired by one of history's most tantalizing unsolved mysteries: the fate of the Roman soldiers lost after Carrhae, and the theory that some of them marched all the way to the frontier of Han China, where a remote town's residents would, centuries later, be found with startlingly Roman features. After a catastrophic military defeat, a group of broken survivors must navigate a brutal journey through foreign lands, choosing between death or fighting as mercenaries for a distant king to forge a new identity. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Rome cast them out. The desert swallowed the Eagles at Carrhae, and the legionaries who survived became slaves, then mercenaries, then ghosts of an empire that will never send for them. At the edge of the known world, deep in the steppe beyond the Silk Road, Tribune Rufinius and the remnants of his cohort have carved out something like a home - in the service of Zhizhi, self-styled Chanyu of all Xiongnu, a warlord whose ambition is matched only by his cruelty.But loyalty bought with steel is loyalty on loan. Zhizhi's own brother, Huhanye, has thrown in his lot with the golden throne of Han and claimed as his bride the most celebrated beauty in the Forbidden City - Wang Zhaojun, a concubine whose portrait has become an empire's obsession, and whose heart is not as settled as her marriage. As the rival Chanyus circle one another and Chin sharpens its spears for a reckoning generations in the making, Rufinius is drawn into a game of empires spanning four peoples and a thousand li of frozen plain.At his side is Lucia - once a slave, now his wife, and the one thing left he cannot afford to lose. Between them and survival stand duels fought bare-chested on the ice, a harem seething with poison and ambition, old blood debts, and a Roman discipline that may yet save this broken legion - or be the death of every man in it.Grounded in one of history's most tantalizing mysteries - the lost legion of Carrhae, and the Chinese chronicles that may have glimpsed them one last time - Blood & Empire is a sweeping, sensual, brutal journey through the ancient world's collision of empires. For readers of Conn Iggulden and Robert Harris, this is historical fiction at full gallop: love and war, loyalty and betrayal, fought at the edge of a gladius. Lost soldiers from a fallen legion fight for survival in a brutal landscape of warring dynasties, caught between shifting loyalties and the deadly games of ambitious warlords. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 53 BC. On the sun-scorched plains of Mesopotamia, Marcus Licinius Crassus, the richest man in Rome, marches forty thousand legionaries into Parthia in search of the one thing his fortune could never buy him: military glory to rival Caesar and Pompey.He finds annihilation instead. Led by the brilliant Parthian general Surenas, an enemy force a fraction of the legions' size will encircle and destroy them with an endless, merciless rain of arrows, exposing Crassus's arrogance and Rome's own blind faith in the invincibility of the legion.At Carrhae, Parthian horse archers and armored cataphracts tear the legions apart on ground of their own choosing. Crassus's son Publius falls on his own sword rather than be taken. Crassus himself is dead within days, the golden ending the old stories always warned him about. Of the proud army that marched east, ten thousand men are killed. Ten thousand more are taken alive.Among the survivors is Tullus Bassius Rufinius, a young non-commissioned officer who has never led anything larger than a single contubernium, and Appias Cominius Maro, the campaign's reluctant historian, dragged along to record a triumph that never came. When the officers who should have led them are dead, it falls to Rufinius to hold the survivors together through a death march across the desert and into slavery.Sold like cattle in the markets of the east, the legionaries are marched further still, deep into the territory of the Xiongnu, a nomadic empire that has never seen anything like the discipline of a Roman shield wall. There, Rufinius and his men are handed a brutal choice: die as slaves, or fight as mercenaries for a foreign king who owns them body and soul.What follows is a story of survival against impossible odds, of a woman who becomes far more than the disguise she hides behind, of an old prophecy that promises Rufinius will live forever, and of a ragged legion with no homeland, no emperor, and no way home, forging an identity that is no longer entirely Roman and not yet anything else.Rufinius quickly proves he is more than a fighter. He is a leader men will follow into a country whose name they cannot pronounce, and a husband to a woman whose survival has depended on being someone she is not. Around him gathers the remnant of his old contubernium, foul-mouthed and battle-scarred, more loyal to each other than to any eagle standard, and it is this small brotherhood, as much as Rufinius himself, that carries the emotional weight of the novel through slave markets, frozen sieges, and the intrigue of a foreign king's court. Appias, meanwhile, survives less by the sword than by his wit, his pen, and his gift for making himself useful to whoever currently owns him, and it is through his eyes, decades later and half a world away, that this entire story is finally set down.Field of Mars is inspired by one of history's most tantalizing unsolved mysteries: the fate of the Roman soldiers lost after Carrhae, and the theory that some of them marched all the way to the frontier of Han China, where a remote town's residents would, centuries later, be found with startlingly Roman features. After a catastrophic military defeat, a group of broken survivors must navigate a brutal journey through foreign lands, choosing between death or fighting as mercenaries for a distant king to forge a new identity. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 53 BC. On the sun-scorched plains of Mesopotamia, Marcus Licinius Crassus, the richest man in Rome, marches forty thousand legionaries into Parthia in search of the one thing his fortune could never buy him: military glory to rival Caesar and Pompey.He finds annihilation instead. Led by the brilliant Parthian general Surenas, an enemy force a fraction of the legions' size will encircle and destroy them with an endless, merciless rain of arrows, exposing Crassus's arrogance and Rome's own blind faith in the invincibility of the legion.At Carrhae, Parthian horse archers and armored cataphracts tear the legions apart on ground of their own choosing. Crassus's son Publius falls on his own sword rather than be taken. Crassus himself is dead within days, the golden ending the old stories always warned him about. Of the proud army that marched east, ten thousand men are killed. Ten thousand more are taken alive.Among the survivors is Tullus Bassius Rufinius, a young non-commissioned officer who has never led anything larger than a single contubernium, and Appias Cominius Maro, the campaign's reluctant historian, dragged along to record a triumph that never came. When the officers who should have led them are dead, it falls to Rufinius to hold the survivors together through a death march across the desert and into slavery.Sold like cattle in the markets of the east, the legionaries are marched further still, deep into the territory of the Xiongnu, a nomadic empire that has never seen anything like the discipline of a Roman shield wall. There, Rufinius and his men are handed a brutal choice: die as slaves, or fight as mercenaries for a foreign king who owns them body and soul.What follows is a story of survival against impossible odds, of a woman who becomes far more than the disguise she hides behind, of an old prophecy that promises Rufinius will live forever, and of a ragged legion with no homeland, no emperor, and no way home, forging an identity that is no longer entirely Roman and not yet anything else.Rufinius quickly proves he is more than a fighter. He is a leader men will follow into a country whose name they cannot pronounce, and a husband to a woman whose survival has depended on being someone she is not. Around him gathers the remnant of his old contubernium, foul-mouthed and battle-scarred, more loyal to each other than to any eagle standard, and it is this small brotherhood, as much as Rufinius himself, that carries the emotional weight of the novel through slave markets, frozen sieges, and the intrigue of a foreign king's court. Appias, meanwhile, survives less by the sword than by his wit, his pen, and his gift for making himself useful to whoever currently owns him, and it is through his eyes, decades later and half a world away, that this entire story is finally set down.Field of Mars is inspired by one of history's most tantalizing unsolved mysteries: the fate of the Roman soldiers lost after Carrhae, and the theory that some of them marched all the way to the frontier of Han China, where a remote town's residents would, centuries later, be found with startlingly Roman features. After a catastrophic military defeat, a group of broken survivors must navigate a brutal journey through foreign lands, choosing between death or fighting as mercenaries for a distant king to forge a new identity. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Field of Mars | David A Rollins | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2026 | Source Marketing Pty Ltd | EAN 9781764736046 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.