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Michael Curtis Ford
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The Last King: Rome's Greatest Enemy
Автор: Michael Curtis Ford Жанр: Macmillan Publishers Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2005 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 20 декабря 20092010-08-03
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To the Romans, the greatest enemy the Republic ever faced was not the Goths or Huns, nor even Hannibal, but rather a ferocious and brilliant king on the distant Black Sea: Mithridates Eupator VI, the last king of Pontus, known to history as Mithridates the Great. At age eleven, he inherited a small mountain kingdom of wild tribesmen whom his wicked mother governed in his place. Sweeping to power at twenty-one-years-old, he proved to be a military genius and a man intent on ousting the Romans from the Black Sea coast territories. For over forty years, Rome sent its greatest generals to contain Mithridates, but time and again he embarrassed the Romans with devastating defeats. Each time Rome declared victory, Mithridates considered it merely a strategic retreat and soon came roaring back with a more powerful army than before. From the author of the acclaimed «The Ten Thousand and Gods and Legions», comes a fascinating recreation of a wickedly cunning and ruthless king who would stop at nothing to protect his people-and who would go down in history as one of the greatest and most formidable warriors of the ancient world.
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Sword of Attila: A Novel of Last Years of Rome
Автор: Michael Curtis Ford Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2006 Страниц: 432 Дата загрузки: 20 октрября 20092008-07-04
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For centuries, Rome had ruled from Africa to the wilds of Britain. Now, from across a broad plain of waving grass, a new enemy had poured out of the East—to be led by a man whose goal was not just victory in battle, but the end of an empire... In his novels of ancient warfare, Michael Curtis Ford captures the roar, clamor and horror of battle as well as the intimate moments of human choice upon which history turns. In his extraordinary new work, he brings to life the buckling Roman empire in 400 A.D., a jagged, sprawling realm of foreign fighters, unstable rulers, and battle lines stretched too far. At this pivotal moment, General Flavius Aetius is forced into a battle he does not want but cannot afford to lose. Once Flavius lived among the wild Huns, rode their stout warhorses and became like a son to their king. Now, he faces a man who once saved his life, a man he fears, loves and admires... a man named Attila—the most dangerous enemy Rome has ever known....
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The Fall of Rome: A Novel of a World Lost
Автор: Michael Curtis Ford Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2008 Страниц: 368 Дата загрузки: 10 октрября 20112010-07-24
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476 A.D. The Roman Empire, staggered by centuries of barbarian onslaughts and riddled with corruption, now faces its greatest challenge—not only to its power and prestige, but to its very existence… He reduced Concordia, Altinum, and Patavium to ashes, captured Verona and Milan. He was the most dangerous enemy Rome had ever known. The legacy of Attila the Hun, once thought destroyed on the battlefield, has re-emerged to defy the power of the Western World. Now it’s the sons of Attila’s chief military commanders who are waging battle with one another as the dramatic confrontation between the Emperor and Rome’s barbarian conqueror leads to the thrilling conclusion that becomes the end of the greatest civilization on earth.
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The Ten Thousand: A Novel of Ancient Greece
Автор: Michael Curtis Ford Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2002 Страниц: 384 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20092005-02-29
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n 401 B.C., a thundering army of mercenaries, camp followers, dreamers, and glory seekers set off to help a rebellious foreign general named Cyrus. In the months that followed, ten thousand men--trained and hardened in three decades of war in Greece — would engage in pitched battles, witness untold horrors, and begin a desperate march across he desert, over raging rivers, and into the jaws of hell itself. By the time it was over, some would be alive, others dead, and one among them would emerge and the greatest hero of all... In a novel of high adventure and riveting historical drama, Michael Curtis Ford brings to life an amazing true story from Greek antiquity — Xenophon's march of the ten Thousand. A tale of war and peace, of loyalties and betrayals, and of a soldier's love for a mysterious and dangerous woman, «The Ten Thousand» captures the eternal spirit of courage — in the face of impossible odds.
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Gods and Legions: A Novel of the Roman Empire
Автор: Michael Curtis Ford Жанр: Macmillan Publishers USA Издательство: Macmillan Publishers Год: 2003 Страниц: 464 Дата загрузки: 24 июля 20092006-09-14
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In the year, 354 A.D., Julian, a sheltered scholar and pacifist lives in peace-until a summons from Emperor Constantine the Great changes the young man's life forever. Dispatched to Gaul to help reclaim a beaten Roman territory from German barbarians, Julian displays a surprising and brutal genius for survival against impossible odds. Emerging as an unlikely hero and adored by a legion of zealots, his untapped ambition is ignited-to reign as the new emperor. It's a position of power that'll test the loyalty of his friends, stir the ire of enemies, and cast an ominous shadow over his mad, and most magnificently impossible conquest of all... From the author of the acclaimed «The Ten Thousand» comes a breathtaking recreation of the historic rise to power of a ruthless yet unlikely leader plunged into the chaos of war-and his shocking fall that would become one of the most fascinating mysteries of the ages. A novel of courage and conviction, of loyalty and betrayal, of personal victory and dark ambition, «Gods and Legions» is epic storytelling at its most riveting.
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