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American Science fiction, Space warfare, Fiction, Human-alien encounters
Captured by aliens at the Carrhae disaster, the legendary legions of Rome are forced to battle barbarian armies throughout the galaxy until, after two thousand years, they set out to achieve their freedom from their captors.
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Epic, unpretentious, plot-driven and resolved.
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On Open Library, 2 have read it and 6 want to.
“Gaius Vibulenus wore a white horsehair crest to mark him as a tribune.”
The Army took David Drake from Duke Law School and sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam and Cambodia with the 11th Cav, the Blackhorse. He learned new skills, saw interesting sights, and met exotic people who hadn’t run fast enough to get away. Dave returned to become Chapel Hill’s Assistant Town Attorney and to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences. Dave describes war from where he saw it: the loader’s hatch of a tank in Cambodia. His military experience, combined with his formal education in history and Latin, has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF and fantasy. His bestselling Hammer’s Slammers series is credited
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