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Author
Series
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Forced to the port of Matala by a freak tidal wave, Macro and Cato find Crete decimated by a catastrophic earthquake and an ensuing rebellion against the Roman administration that prompts surviving local authorities to ask for their assistance.
Author
Series
Publisher
Headline Review
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The third in this epic quartet of novels focusing on two giants of European history, Wellington and Napoleon. In the early years of the nineteenth century, Arthur Wellesley (elevated to Viscount Wellington in the course of the novel) and Napoleon Bonaparte are well established as men of military genius. Wellesley has returned from India, where his skill and bravery made a remarkable impression on his superiors. He faces trials and tribulations on...
Author
Series
Cato novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In the bitter winter of AD 44, the Roman troops in Britain are impatiently awaiting the arrival of spring so that the campaign to conquer the island can be renewed. But the native Britons are growing more cunning in their resistance, constantly snapping at the heels of the mighty Roman forces. When the most brutal of the native tribesmen, the Druids of the Dark Moon, capture the shipwrecked wife and children of General Plautius, quick action is called...
Author
Series
Cato novels volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Ordered by the emperor Vespasian of 44 AD's Roman empire to provide an aged ruler with an army, centurions Marco and Cato find their efforts compromised by a deadly plot against their eagles comrades, a situation that tests their army careers and threatens the history of Rome.
6) The generals
Author
Series
Revolution quartet volume 2
Publisher
Headline Review
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
7) Young bloods
Author
Series
Revolution quartet volume 1
Publisher
Headline Review
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Europe in the late eighteenth century was a tumultuous place, with war and rebellions breaking out on many fronts. Young Arthur Wesley (later Wellington) and Napoleon Bonaparte grow up worlds apart yet immersed from youth in a culture where a military career is a natural choice for men of ambition. While Wellington is blooded in Ireland and Flanders, Napoleon is caught up in the dramas of the French Revolution and war with Prussia, Britain and Holland....
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