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Das Leben eines Spions – das Schicksal eines Imperiums. Kaledonien, 210 n. Chr.: Die Römer haben Britannien fest in der Hand, doch müssen die Krieger Roms immer wieder mit Angriffen lokaler Stämme rechnen. Spione sollen widerständige Kämpfer aufspüren. Auf einer solchen Mission befindet sich auch Silus. Als er einen Stammesführer überfällt und köpft, schwört ihm dessen Sohn ewige Rache. Während ihn der eine Augustus – Caracalla – dafür belohnen und befördern will, setzt sich dessen Co-Augustus, sein Bruder Geta, für eine harte Strafe ein.

Present Day. Finally escaping an abusive marriage, Caterina Rossi takes her three-year-old daughter and flees to Italy. There she's drawn to research scientist Connor, who needs her translation help for his work on volcanology. Together they visit the ruins of Pompeii and, standing where Mount Vesuvius unleashed its fire on the city centuries before, Cat begins to see startling visions. Visions that appear to come from the antique bracelet handed down through her family's generations.

Der fulminante Abschluss der großen historischen Saga um die tapferen Gladiatoren. 225 n. Chr.: In den finsteren Wäldern der Provinz Rätien müssen die ehemaligen Gladiatoren nach einem abtrünnigen römischen Offizier fahnden. Doch plötzlich sitzen sie inmitten der eisigen Bergtäler fest, jeder Fluchtweg ist abgeschnitten. Erst jetzt offenbart sich die wahre Gefahr ihrer Mission. Sie geraten nicht nur zwischen die Fronten der verschiedenen in den Alpen ansässigen Stämme, sondern auch ins Kreuzfeuer der bösartigen Machtpolitik Roms.

Peter Gibbon's action packed, historical Saxon Warrior series thunders on...not to be missed An epic battle where heroes fight and die to protect a Kingdom from Viking invasion... 991AD King Aethelred the Unready's Kingdom of the English is threatened. Olaf Tryggvason and his fleet of Viking...

Brought to you by Penguin. From an unmissable new voice comes the powerful and epic story of mythology's darkest heroine. Shunned. Persecuted. Tormented. Medea longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been separated from her sister, shunned by her mother, and persecuted and tormented...

The tide of soldiers washed over the Legion shields. Buried, the ranks of Legionaries sagged. "Push!" the Legion NCO yelled. Welcome to 264 B.C. Over the grunts and cries of men struggling against the mass of bodies pressing down on them, the Optio bellowed again, "Push!" And the Legion shields rose, rolling back the tide. The higher the shields, the more soldiers slid off, and the straighter the Legionaries stood. One shield tilted back, and a mercenary soldier tumbled behind the ranks. An infantryman stepped back and drove his blade between the soldier's ribs. 

Here is a brilliant recounting of the life of Odysseus after his safe return to the island of Ithaca, his wife Penelope, and his son Telemachus. Countless readers and listeners have thrilled to the adventures of Odysseus in The Iliad and The Odyssey, but what further adventures awaited him after his ten years of war and ten years of wandering? Narrated by Telemachus to the bard Phemios, On Wine-Dark Seas speaks of the human drama of a man gone twenty years from home and family, a man who saw Troy on the night of its destruction, a man who lives the special quest which is his destiny.

L'esercito romano, sotto il principato di Marco Aurelio e Lucio Vero, è impegnato nella difficile conquista dell'impero partico, a Oriente. Tre cavalieri, Tito, Bendix e Magnus, si ritrovano coinvolti nel saccheggio del palazzo reale della capitale Seleucia. Ma dai sotterranei dell'edificio si diffonde una minaccia capace di spezzare qualunque armata: una terribile pestilenza, che costringe i romani a rinunciare alla campagna.

Caesar is the praetorian governor of Further Spain when war breaks out against a rebel with a familiar name: Quintus Sertorius. The late Roman rebel left a half-Iberian son behind, and now he's determined to win freedom for his people. But there's one problem: Gaius Julius Caesar is in his way.

“Nell’anno XV° dell’Imperatore Tiberio, Dio discese in Cafarnao e insegnò agli ebrei” Così iniziava il Vangelo di uno dei primi eretici della storia. Nato cinquant’anni dopo la Crocifissione di Cristo. Qualche secolo più tardi, da Tatev partì la rivolta. Da lì prese vita la setta che si dotò del Simbolo del Male.

Ein riesiges Imperium. Ein blutiger Machtkampf. Und eine Frau, die über alle triumphiert. 192 n. C.: Das Römische Reich leidet unter der Herrschaft von Kaiser Commodus, der als grausam und wahnsinnig gilt. Als er einer tödlichen Intrige zum Opfer fällt, kämpfen die mächtigsten Männer Roms um die Herrschaft. Unterdessen schmiedet Julia Domna, Gattin des Statthalters Septimius Severus, eigene ehrgeizige Pläne: Sie will eine neue Dynastie begründen. Kaum jemand ahnt, dass die bildschöne Julia die Mechanismen der Macht besser durchschaut als all ihre Rivalen.

Bloomsbury presents Odin's Game by Tim Hodkinson, read by Rycharde Everley. FAST-PACED, DETAILED AND BRILLIANTLY WRITTEN [FOR] FANS OF BERNARD CORNWELL, GEORGE R.R. MARTIN AND THEODORE BRUN' HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY. Not everyone will survive, but who will conquer all in Odin's game? AD 916. In...

Aemilius thought he would die heroically in battle like his forefathers, mourned by a loving wife and many children, but he’s barely a man when a harpy flies down out of the old myths and knocks him from his horse. Stunned and helpless, he waits for his end … and is saved. Formed on the bloody battlefield of Teutoburg, the Hidden Legion are an order of soldiers, magicians, and rogues so secret that the Empire itself would hunt them down if they were exposed. And now Aemilius is one of them.

The acclaimed author of Sistersong transforms the story of Herla and the Wild Hunt into a rich, feminist fantasy in this stunning tale of two great warriors, a war-torn land, and an ancient magic that is slowly awakening. Britain, 60AD. Hoping to save her lover, her land, and her people from the...

Four novella-length stories written to illuminate Lindsey Davis's unparalleled output of the last 30 years, with an introduction written and narrated by the author. Lindsey Davis has received the Crime Writer's Association Lifetime Achievement Award for her two immortal series of detective...

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Die unter großer Mühsal eroberte Provinz Britannien ist ein Stachel im Fleisch des römischen Imperiums. Einheimische Rebellengruppen hören nicht auf, erbitterten Widerstand zu leisten, und schmieden Allianzen gegen ihren gemeinsamen Feind. Zugleich bereichern sich auf römischer Seite gierige Verwalter auf Kosten der darbenden Bevölkerung. In dieser aufgeheizten Stimmung entsendet das Imperium zwei seiner erfahrensten Krieger: Erneut stehen Präfekt Cato und Centurio Macro den Rebellen Seite an Seite gegenüber.

Honor is secondary to survival. Reeling from their losses at Callinicum, the Roman army has repulsed the Persians from Mesopotamia, but at horrendous cost. Belisarius’ improbable triumph at Dara is cast aside by a vengeful legate, condemning Constantinople’s vaunted general to ignominious imprisonment. With his last order, Belisarius pleads with Varus to lead the army to safety and to bring peace to a shattered land.

Del re di Roma, Servio Tullio, Lucio Tarquinio ha sposato la primogenita, gettando così le basi per la conquista del trono. Ma il suo cuore batte da sempre per l’altra figlia del re, la donna che il destino gli ha riservato. Amica d’infanzia, poi cognata, amante, sposa, madre dei suoi figli, ma anche fonte di ispirazione, confidente, soprattutto complice: Tullia accompagna la vita di Lucio Tarquinio e la sua feroce ascesa fra i potenti di Roma, aprendogli la strada e dandogli forza e determinazione.

The next bloody and thrilling instalment in MJ Porter's The Brunanburh Series. Can the King of the Scots and the Dublin Norse triumph against a united England? AD934 King Athelstan of the English has been successful in uniting the many kingdoms of Britain against one enemy, the Viking raiders...