12-29-2001, 07:24 AM
Gotta second that Duggan recommendation. "Winter Quarters" has always been one of my all time Roman fiction faves. I have the first American paperback edition (Ace Star K-105, if you'd like to find it through a book search). Evocative, accurate and very, very well done...<br>
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Another well-researched epic in the same vein is Vic Hurley's "The Parthian" (Fleet Publishing Corp., 1960). Hurley knew his stuff better than most, having also written "Arrows Against Steel: The History of the Bow."<br>
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Some of the best historical fiction I've ever read was written in the 1040s and '50s, and it often puts modern stuff to shame. I might also recommend F. Van Wyck Mason's "The Barbarians" (Pocket Books 1024) which deals with the last years of the conflict between Rome and Carthage. The same care and research that went into "Winter Quarters" and "The Parthian" obviously didn't go into "The Barbarians," which is more of a stola-ripper. It's the tale of a Carthaginian slave, once the prince of a British tribe, who escapes and seeks his revenge. Lots of bloody action and sultry sex (or as much sultry sex as you can have in a book from 1954). Loads o' fun...<br>
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Gregg <p></p><i></i>
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Another well-researched epic in the same vein is Vic Hurley's "The Parthian" (Fleet Publishing Corp., 1960). Hurley knew his stuff better than most, having also written "Arrows Against Steel: The History of the Bow."<br>
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Some of the best historical fiction I've ever read was written in the 1040s and '50s, and it often puts modern stuff to shame. I might also recommend F. Van Wyck Mason's "The Barbarians" (Pocket Books 1024) which deals with the last years of the conflict between Rome and Carthage. The same care and research that went into "Winter Quarters" and "The Parthian" obviously didn't go into "The Barbarians," which is more of a stola-ripper. It's the tale of a Carthaginian slave, once the prince of a British tribe, who escapes and seeks his revenge. Lots of bloody action and sultry sex (or as much sultry sex as you can have in a book from 1954). Loads o' fun...<br>
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Gregg <p></p><i></i>
