The year is AD 9. Centurion Rufus and his battle-hardened century - part of three mighty Legions, were returning to the safety of their winter quarters beside the River Rhine. The veteran Centurion and his men suspected nothing. The entire province was about to explode into a bloodbath of rebellion. A turncoat had spent his childhood learning Roman ways. Little did they know, but his ultimate goal was one day to destroy the superbly trained and equipped army of the north. Caught in a cunning web of the traitor's lies, marching in column in atrocious weather, the exhausted Legions were repeatedly attacked by thousands of savage tribesmen in the Teutoburg Wald; a vast, sinister tract of forbidding forest on the untamed rim of the Roman Empire. During seventy-two hours of unimaginable terror, the Legions were systematically and ruthlessly destroyed. Cut off and alone, Centurion Rufus and Legionary Sextus fought a terrifying, desperate battle to survive the horrors which surrounded them...
- ISBN10 1291595023
- ISBN13 9781291595024
- Publish Date 7 November 2013 (first published 7 June 2012)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 January 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook (OEB)
- Language English