TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sidebottom,Harry
TI  - Blood and steel
T2  - Throne of the Caesars
SN  - 9780007499885
CY  - Great Britain
PB  - HarperCollins
KW  - Maximinus, C. Julius Verus, Roman Emperor
KW  - Mercenary troops
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
N2  - 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
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