The Falling Sword (Clash of Empires)

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My quibble is that, as is typical from authors from the English speaking world, he never bothered to consult Italian historians. Activate again to launch yourself into the heavens and come crashing down at the sword's location, dealing damage to all nearby enemies and retrieving the sword. If you're running a script or application, please register or sign in with your developer credentials here. But a sensible senator could easily avoid the necessity for exile in the first place by expanding his alliances.

And he gets the military lifestyle very well, even if I suspect that even the most dedicated soldier would have had more interactions with the civilian world and extramilitary activities than this. The pace of the story is spot on, characters are revisited frequently enough and their stories develop well. The descriptions are wonderfully brutal, true to the storyline and time we are visiting, and it does indeed feel like I have visited!

The battles are visceral and bloodthirsty and so are the lives that these doughty foot soldiers lead with all the petty intrigues associated with the rank and file. a great story which brings ancient history to life due to the balance of real historical characters and sub plots of ordinary soldiers. But between vicious infighting, unruly locals, and intense battle, both will be tested as the final showdown between two great civilisations begins.

Effortlessly continuing where Clash of Empires ended, the reader is thrown straight into the action once again as we see the conflict through the eyes of Felix and Demetrios, young men on opposing sides of the struggle between Rome and Macedonia for the control of Greece.This is a historical novel centred around the battle of Kynoskephalae, which effectively was the end of the Macedonian control of Greece, and the start of the decline of the phalanx as the powerful unit of the time.