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Sto caricando le informazioni... Arminius: The Limits of Empire (edizione 2017)di Robert Fabbri
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This book is set in the early years of Empire as the Roman Empire expands north and east into the vast forests of the German plains. Having proven time after time that the power of the legions have no equal the Romans believe that the tribes making up the new province of Germania Magna will prove to be as easy meat but Arminius had other ideas. Brought up in Rome as a hostage against his father's good behaviour, Arminius has been brought up in the ways of the Romans while not forgetting where he had come from, and just biding his time to take revenge on the legions sent to subdue the tribes. But first, he has to... persuade his own people that there was only one end to their constant tribal warfare; domination by Rome. Finally his time comes and as the legions return to their winter forts, Arminius persuades the tribes to attack not one, but three legions and over a number of days, as the advantage goes one way then the other, the Romans are worn down and their sacred Eagles disappear into the great forests. The tale is told in flashback as his son, treating with Romans on more even terms, gets some slaves taken from the legions o recount his father's history to a group of Romans come to recover the missing Eagle as Rome prepares to attack Britannia. Despite the breaks created by the framing story, the bits involving Arminius were engrossing and in their way rather surprising to see how much depended on the stupidity of the Roman commanders (not strictly historically accurate as Fabbri notes in a note at the end of the book - this is a novel not a history textbook) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
A stunning stand-alone Roman epic historical from the author of the bestselling Vespasian series. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Very highly recommended. ( )