Camillus - Dictator of Rome (Book 4): Vae Victis

Book overview 390 BC and Rome sends envoys to the city of Clusium as they are besieged by 30,000 Gallic invaders.

As the Gauls fall to the trickery of the Romans they declare war on the city and smash the Roman army at the battle of the river Allia, Rome's greatest ever defeat.

The gates of Rome stand open as the Senate barricade themselves onto the Capitol Hill and the Gauls take the city.Marcus is called upon by the Senate to build an army to defeat the Barbarians and return Rome to its own people as the invaders burn and loot the once great city.