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Blood and steel.

Sidebottom, Harry

Blood and steel. - Great Britain : HarperCollins - Throne of the Caesars : bk. 2. .

Rome, AD238. An assassin masked as Emperor Maximinus' messenger murders the Prefect and announces to Rome that their Emperor is dead in the north and that Gordian I and II have taken the Throne of the Caesars.But Maximinus is not dead. Secretly he is gathering an army on the banks of the Danube waiting for his moment to strike on the Goths.In Rome, the Gordiani are enthroned and Maximus denounced as an enemy of the state along with any known followers. As bloodshed ensues on the streets, and news spreads back to Maximinus, tension rise in the fight for the imperial purple, which will culminate in a mighty battle of Carthage.

ISBN: 9780007499885 0007499884

Subjects--Personal Names:
Maximinus, C. Julius Verus, Roman Emperor -238 --Fiction.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mercenary troops--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction

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