'A great story ... Doherty’s writing is evocative, providing richly detailed scenes of life in medieval Byzantium' World History EncyclopediaTragedy broke him. Revenge will remake him.AD 1046. The Byzantine Empire teeters on the brink of full-blown...
The Danubian frontier is weaker than ever, and a storm is gathering in the north . . . Deep winter, 376 AD: Emperor Valens has withdrawn the field armies from Moesia and Thracia to fight in the Persian War. The impoverished limitanei legions left beh...
Even in the darkness of war, there is always a flicker of hope.AD 1068. The Seljuk Sultanate tears at Byzantium’s borders. Alp Arslan’s armies grow stronger with every victory, while the Byzantines forces dwindle, the hope in their hearts gutteri...
The empire is on its knees, but a last hope lies beyond the eastern frontier . . .377 AD: Emperor Valens has stripped the Persian frontier of its legions, sending every available man to Thracia in an effort to contain the rampaging Gothic hordes. Now...
A clash of empires that will echo for eternity…AD 1071. Emperor Romanus Diogenes has rekindled the guttering flame of Byzantium, and a reinvigorated empire rises to meet the Seljuk threat. In the eastern borderlands, two vital strongholds hang in t...
The legions are in tatters, and the Gothic hordes are gathering beyond the mountains . . .377 AD: Thracia’s legions are few and broken in the wake of the Battle of Ad Salices. But the scattered centuries and cohorts rally in an effort to blockade t...
The fate of the East rests on the edge of a sword as the legions and the Goths march to war...378 AD: Fritigern's Gothic horde tightens its iron grip on Thracia and only a handful of well-walled cities to the south remain in imperial hands. The few t...
379 AD: Thracia has fallen to the Gothic horde…With the ashes of Adrianople still swirling in the air, the Eastern Roman Empire is in turmoil. The emperor is dead, the throne lies empty and the remaining fragments of the army are few and scattered....
381 AD: The Gothic War draws to a brutal climax, and the victor's name will be written in blood...The great struggle between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Gothic Horde rumbles into its fifth year. It seems that there can be no end to the conflict,...
They call her misthios--mercenary--and she will take what she is owed. Kassandra was raised by her parents to be fierce and uncaring, the ideal Spartan child, destined for greatness. But when a terrible tragedy leaves her stranded on the isle of K...
Four sons. One throne. A world on the precipice.1315 BC: Tensions soar between the great powers of the Late Bronze Age. The Hittites stand toe-to-toe with Egypt, Assyria and Mycenaean Ahhiyawa, and war seems inevitable. More, t...
What hope has one forgotten soldier of bringing an emperor to justice?Winter, 382 AD. The Gothic War is over. After years of bloodshed, the Eastern Roman Empire and the Goths have struck a deal for peace. Imperial heralds crow about the treaty as if ...
A tale of far-flung desert adventure set in the distant Bronze Age. Two great empires on the brink of war, one last hope for peace…1294 BC: The fragile accord between the Hittite and Egyptian empires is crumbling. The ancient world braces itsel...
360 AD: A Roman legion is trapped and surrounded in the blistering Persian desert... and a great saga begins.Eagles in the Desert was intense and ominous - a fast paced, gory battle tale centred around fathers and sons. - Historical Writers' Associat...
It will be the cruellest war ever waged, and the Gods will gather to watch…1275 BC: Tensions between the Hittite and Egyptian Empires erupt and the two great superpowers mobilise for all-out war. Horns blare across the Hittite northlands and th...
The King of the Hittites has been slain, and a reign of terror begins…1272 BC: Prince Hattu returns home from the battlefield of Kadesh to find his nephew on the throne, the old king’s blood dripping from his hands. Under Urhi-Teshub̵...
The war at Troy has raged for ten years. Its final throes will echo through eternity…1258 BC: Surrounded and outnumbered by the army of Agamemnon, King Priam and his Trojan forces fight desperately to defend their city. In the lulls between bat...
The time will come, as all times must, when the world will shake, and fall to dust…1237 BC: It is an age of panic. The great empires are in disarray – ravaged by endless drought, shaken by ferocious earthquakes and starved of precious tin...
Easier to split the sky, than part a soldier from his blade.386 AD. The Eastern Roman Empire faces a trident of threats. The Gothic truce grows unstable. The standoff with Persia escalates. And the ambitions of the usurper on the Western throne grow ...