Eagle in the Snow: General Maximus and Rome's Last Stand

Breem, Wallace

ISBN 10: 0297645617 / ISBN 13: 9780297645610

Editore: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003

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VGC plus.Weidenfeld and Nicolson,2003.Blue hardback(silver lettering to the spine,small dent and crease on the edges of the cover and spine) with Dj(a couple of creases and small nicks on the edges of the Dj cover),both in VGC.Illustrated with a colour map inside the front and back cover.Nice and clean pages with some ink marks and light shelf wear on the outer edges,small nick and light shelf wear on the edges of the pages.The book is in VGC with light shelf wear inside the edges of the Dj cover.384pp including List of principal characters,historical events,principal place names,glossary of tribal peoples,glossary of terms,bibliography.Price un-clipped.A collectable and OOP book.

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• Titolo: Eagle in the Snow: General Maximus and Rome's Last Stand
• Editore: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0297645617
• ISBN 13: 9780297645610
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Very good
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Very good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Literature & Fiction : Historical

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Riassunto

The year is 406. A single Roman legion stands guard on the Rhine. Only these few men, a thin stretch of river and the determination of their general, Maximus, hold the frontier for Rome against the barbarian hordes. Maximus is urged to proclaim himself emperor, but he stands by his concept of duty and holds the frontier for longer than seems possible. Then chance plays a cruel trick . . .

First published in 1970, EAGLE IN THE SNOW is a taut, gripping story of the fall of the Roman Empire in microcosm, as seen through the eyes of Maximus.

'It has the feel of a crumbling frontier world, and a Roman world at that... A triumph.' John Terraine

'This is a magnificent panorama of a splintering civilization, elegaic and deeply moving, its reissue is long overdue.' GOOD BOOK GUIDE

'Wallace Breem belongs to that very short list of writers whose work elevates historical fiction beyond the genre and sets it alongside the best writing of any kind, in any period.' Steven Pressfield

Informazioni sull?autore

Wallace Breem was born in 1926 and educated at Westminster School. In 1944 he entered the Indian Army Officers' Training School and later joined a crack regiment of the North West Frontier Force. After the war he took a number of temporary jobs, eventually joining the library staff of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.

By 1965 he had become the 11th Chief Librarian and Keeper of Manuscripts. He was a founder member of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians. He served the organisation in a number of senior capacities from 1969 until his death in 1990, when the Association and the Inner Temple jointly set up a Memorial Award in his honour.