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William Dietrich - QVINTVS ARTORIVS CORVINVS - 07-11-2007
Anyone read William Dietrich's:
Hadrian's Wall or Scourge of God?
I quite enjoyed them, but then again I am far from a historian.
What think you?
Re: William Dietrich - Muzzaguchi - 07-12-2007
Hi Phillip,
I read them and liked them although the romance angle was a bit naff in both IMO. I don't think his detail was at a level to criticise overly although I think it was anachronistic at times in Hadrian's Wall. (I preferred Bradshaw's Island of Ghosts. Then there is Shipway's Imperial Governor which is very dense on numbers and tropps dispositions but enjoyable). There is an old thread which mentions both Dietrich novels. I haven't read anything more of his or any other Attila novels (I do have sign of the pagan somewhere - the one turned into a film with Jack Palance as Attila).
Cheers
Murray