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Paperback Fire in the East: Warrior of Rome: Book 1 Book

ISBN: 1590202465

ISBN13: 9781590202463

Fire in the East

(Book #1 in the Warrior of Rome Series)

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Book Overview

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. 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. With a spectacular flair for sheer explosive action and knuckle-whitening drama, fans of Bernard Cornwell will love this recreation of the ancient world. Praise for Harry Sidebottom: 'Sidebottom's prose blazes with searing scholarship' The Times 'The best sort of red-blooded historical fiction' Andrew Taylor, author of The American Boy This description may be from another edition of this product.

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7 customer ratings | 4 reviews

Rated 5 stars
Great

First of all, I'm a great fan of history novels, from Eagle in the snow to Simon Scarrow's adventures of Macro and Cato. And I have to say that at least for me, this book really delivered many things-finely researched and interesting period in a roman history, good mix of politics and action, mostly unpredictable plot, interesting characters with enough depth in them. In short-a great action novel There was just one small...

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Rated 5 stars
Simply a Great Historical Novel

I'm slightly surprised by some of the lukewarm reviews of this book. Personally I thought it was one of the best historical novels about the Roman Empire that I've ever read. It's certainly superior to the Cato-Macro novels of Simon Scarrow although they are entertaining reads in themselves. Fire in the East is set in 255AD, right in the middle of the 235-284AD imperial crisis which almost brought down the Roman Empire...

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Rated 4 stars
Realism meets Ripping Yarn

"Write what you know" is probably good advice for first-time authors, and Fire in the East shows us the virtues of following this dictum. However, there is such a thing as overdoing it, as the novel falters when it steps away from the author's area of expertise. There is no arguing Harry Sidebottom knows his Roman history. He holds a doctorate in Ancient History from Oxford University's Corpus Christi College, and now lectures...

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Rated 5 stars
intriguing historical thriller

By AD 255, the Roman Empire struggles to maintain order especially in the outlying sectors as barbarians and infidels pose viable threats as Command and Control is almost nonexistent. Emperors Valerian and Gallienus send the honorary Dux Ripea, Marcus Clodius Bastilla, to take command of the legion on the eastern border. Marcus leaves his wife in Rome and travels to his new outpost. He arrives in Arete, Syria where his...

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