Fire and sword
Sidebottom, Harry2016
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Rome AD238. The Year of the Six Emperors.The empire is in turmoil. With the Gordiani, father and son, dead in Africa, the tyrant Maximinus Thrax vies to reclaim the throne. The Senate, who supported the revolt of the Gordiani, must act quickly to avoid the vengeance of Maximinus. They elect two Senators to share the imperial purple. But fighting erupts in the streets as ambitious men call for violent revolution. Can the new Augusti hold the city together as the empire’s farthest territories fight off bloody attacks from the Goths and the Persians in the east?
Main title:
Fire and sword / by Harry Sidebottom.
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Imprint:
London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016
Collation:
437 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Throne of the Caesars ; n3.
ISBN:
9780007499939 (paperback)
Language:
English
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BRN:
315136
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