Flavius Quirinius, a provincial Roman noble, fights to save Britain, now cut off from the Roman Empire, whose provinces are now slumping into Germanic kingdoms. He fights Saxons and Scots, but his greatest enemy is the indifference and hostility of his fellow Romans, who fail to see the threat to their position of a world sliding into barbarism.
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This novel is a new, Roman approach to the events that gave rise to the legends of King Arthur.
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The nomadic peoples of central Asia—-- Huns, Bulgars, Magyars, and Mongols-- —are still known to us for their legendary leaders Attila, Genghis Khan, and Tamerlane, as well as for their feats of calculated brutality. Less studied is the remarkable effectiveness of their battle techniques: for two thousand years, these horse-archer armies were an unstoppable force. This book introduces the most important of these raiders as well as a host of other tribes and examines in detail their tactics, strategies, and weaponry—.