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Скачать книгу (размер 2 110 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 415) Аннотация: The next searing adventure from the author of The Last Legion. Manfredi has created a rip-roaring adventure seen from the perspective of a woman. Her story encompasses one of the great collective acts of heroism of the ancient world. She was the mistress of Xenophon, a general in the vast army of ten thousand Greek mercenaries from virtually every Greek city state that was employed by Cyrus the…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Southern Anatolia, 260 AD. The town of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last legs, besieged by the Persian troops of Shapur I. Roman Emperor Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to draw up a peace treaty, but it is only a trap and the Emperor and his twelve guards are chained and dragged away to work as prisoners in a solitary Persian turquoise mine. After months of forced labour…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: The story opens on the day that the Western Roman Empire collapses finally in 470AD, as the Last Emperor of Rome is encamped protected by the Nova Invicta Legion. All is lost in the space of a few minutes as a horde of Barbarians sweep through the camp in the fog, kill the Imperial family and take the young Emperor captive. The Roman Empire is in ruins... But all is not lost. From the dust of…

Скачать книгу (размер 422 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 84) Аннотация: Questa storia prende avvio e ispirazione dal rinvenimento e dallo scavo di due relitti medievali affondati presso l'isola, oggi sommersa in laguna, di San Marco in Boccalama, usata come luogo di sepoltura, se non di discarica, dei morti della peste del 1348. L'autore raccoglie gli elementi documentali di base di questa importante impresa archeologica ma rimescola completamente le carte per far…