Barbarian Gods Rising (Dynasty of Empires - Rome, Band 1) - Softcover

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Beck, Andrew

 
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AD 1909 – Rome has been embroiled in a five year bloody and brutal civil war that has left no province of the Empire unscathed, an unsure young Emperor rules in the shadow of his late father, guided by a protective sister he fears been controlled and caged by a conniving senate who seeks to take his power from him.

Across the Caspian mountains, barbarian tanks pour into the vulnerable Eastern provinces, bringing brutality and destruction to the unprotected citizens, Atilla lord of the Hun entrusts his youngest son to drive his marauding horde towards the frontier town of Elegeia to claim a prize that has eluded him for years.

Unwilling to relinquish the East to the barbarian hordes without a fight, the senate despatches the aging hero of Rome, General Lucius Aquila Masala with an inadequate force of legionnaires and armour to stop the Huns and stem the breach before they reach the seas of the Mediterranean.

With the world starting to burn as artillery, tanks and machineguns dominate the bloody battlefields, the world’s largest corporation the East India Company instructs Lord Cavandish to intervene as threats to the business emerge, Along with Magnus his loyal Viking servant he plots and manipulates situations to bring both sides of the civil war to the negotiating table as disturbing news emerges from the far east.

Within the chaos and destruction of a secretive war slowly engulfing the world, ancient faiths and dark myths that have been dormant for centuries, rise amongst the burning ashes to achieve dark ulterior goals as the Phantom Queen seeks to reclaim her crown.

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