War at the Edge of the World (Twilight of Empire, #1)

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The epic first installment in a new series set at the end of empire in the reign of the Emperor Constantine, The War at the Edge of the World follows newly promoted centurion Aurelius Castus into the tumultuous battle for the future of Rome.Once a soldier in an elite legion from the Danube, now stuck in Britain s provincial backwater, Castus believes his glory days are over But fate is about to intervene When the king of the Picts, the savage people beyond Hadrian s Wall, dies in mysterious circumstances, Castus is selected to command the bodyguard of a Roman envoy sent to negotiate with the barbarians.But the diplomatic mission ends in bloody tragedy Castus and his men are soon fighting for their lives and the legionary discovers that nothing about his doomed mission was ever what it seemed. New Read War at the Edge of the World (Twilight of Empire, #1) author Ian James Ross For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr What would you do if your Centurion died in the middle of combat Your Century is left leaderless, and the men s morale hangs in the balance, do you flee or fight Aurelius Castus, who was just a common legionary, stepped over his Centurion s body and struck down the horseman that trampled him Thus, in the brief prologue of the book the protagonist s heroism is defined It s no wonder then that after the campaign Castus was made a Centurion for his valour He ins...Absolutely enthralling and packed with action Set in Roman Britain, during late reign of Emperor Constantius and subsequent acclamation of Constantine as Emperor by the troops, in the 4th century A.D., a time not treated much in fiction Aurelius Castus, a common soldier, who, in fighting Persians, because of his valor at his unthinking rush into the breach when his centurion is killed, is decorated After defeating barbarians in Pannonia he is promoted to that rank and sent to Roman Britain H Absolutely enthralling and packed wi...This is an impressive debut Set in a little known era of the Roman Empire the early 4th century AD it throws us headfirst into a chaotic world in which emperors rise and fall, fortunes change and a man does not know who ...An excellent Roman military adventure set in late Roman Britain in York and north of the Wall Very hard to put down.Where emperors are madeAurelius Castus, Roman centurion, is that sort of stolid, tough, illiterate, Pannonian peasant soldier upon which the Roman Empire came to depend in the Fourth Century, its twilight years A man to whom the army is life, who obeys his orders without question, he is sent on escor...ReviewIan Ross and Twilight of Empire War at the edge of the World has all the hallmarks of the next great Roman series The author has chosen a period that few have written in, a time when Rome and its empire is very different to the one we see portrayed in films and the HBO TV series, gone is the segmented armour, the Scutum etc, in its place, Mail or scale armour oval shields and these guys wore tunics and breeches, a clear sign of the blending of other nations into th...A very good look at the reign of Constantius Chlorius in Britain in the early fourth century It manages to combine action adventure heroics with a very accurate depiction of the realities of Roman life About the only problem...I wasn t sure what to expect from Ian Ross debut, to be honest I ve a soft spot for the Late Roman Empire these days, and it often worries me that writers won t do the era justice After all, for centuries now scholars have considered everything from the early 3rd century onwards to be the Decline and Fall etc I needn t have worried What should you expect from War at the edge of the world Rollocking Romans, put simply.This book, set at the time of the tetrarchy with Constantius as Augustus, I wasn t sure what to expect from Ian Ross debut, to be honest I ve a soft spot for the Late Roman Empire these days, and it often worries me that writers won t do the era justice After all, for ce...With War at the Edge of the World, I decided to take a break from my usual, continuous fantasy binge to read a bit of historical fiction I tend to really enjoy Roman based books, and found this to be a refreshing change, set as it was in the later stages of the empire rather than during the height of Republican power.With an endorsement from Conn Iggulden on the cover, I had high expectations, and I was not disappointed The plot progressed at a good speed and even if some of the twists were ex With War at the Edge of the World, I decided to take a break from my usual, continuous fantasy binge to read a bit of historical fiction I tend to really enjoy Roman based books, and found this to be a refreshing change, set as it was in the later stages of the empire rather than during the height of Republican power.With an endorsement from Conn Iggulden on the cover, I had high expectations, and I was not disappointed The plot progressed at a good speed and even if some of the twists were expected, it was good to see them borne out I found myself liking the main character, Castus, without apparent effort, and enjoyed the complex of subplots swirling just below all the visceral action.The combat was well done, with good armour consistencies a rarity in fantasy as well as historical fiction , and I found it highly educational with regards to later Roman equipment for example, I did not realise the legionaries used darts as well as javelins...really enjoyed this historical novel based in the latter years of the roman empire on the borders between the roman empire and pictland and the power struggles between different factions on both sides and how the hero go...

War at the Edge of the World (Twilight of Empire, #1)
  • 13 March 2018
  • Hardcover
  • 416 pages
  • 1468311212
  • Ian James Ross
  • War at the Edge of the World (Twilight of Empire, #1)