Warrior of Rome (Audio): Fire in the East (Audiobook)

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from JGolomb

Fire in the East is a strong newcomer in the category of Roman Military Historical Fiction. The book is smart, finely detailed, violent and exciting. Author Harry Sidebottom is a published professor of ancient history and he draws very detailed accounts of all aspects of Roman military life in th...

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While throwing out some old copies of TLS I ran across a review of Sidebottom's King of Kings, the second title in the Warrior of Rome series. Thought I'd check it out starting with v. 1, and as it turned out the only Sidebottom title at the New Haven Public was this one, Fire in the East. Roman ...

from DWWilkin

There were two things wrong with this book in my opinion as I review it, yet I gave it 4 stars? Well, the first thing was that the pacing was slow. Slow. Slow. It took me a good deal of time to get into it, and the siege (Not a spoiler, you know that Ballista, our hero, is taking his command to p...

from YossarianXeno

Fire in the East is a cut above most Roman military fiction, comparable to Simon Scarrow at the latter's best. Sidebottom's real life job as a Professor of Classical History has clearly helped him produce a well informed novel, in which the pace slowly builds to the climactic conclusion of a dese...