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  • Published: 6 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141935287
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

Warrior of Rome VI: The Amber Road



The sixth novel in Harry Sidebottom's Top 5 bestselling Warrior of Rome series

AD 264 - the Roman Empire is torn in two.

The western provinces - Gaul, Spain and Britain - have been seized by the pretender Postumus. To the east, on the plains of northern Italy, the armies of the emperor Gallienus muster.

War is coming.

Everyone must choose a side.

On a mission shrouded in secrecy and suspicion, Ballista must journey The Amber Road to the far north to Hyperborea, back to his original home and the people of his birth.

A fearsome, masked warlord attacks, bringing fire and sword against the Angles. Yet not all welcome Ballista's return.

  • Published: 6 February 2014
  • ISBN: 9780141935287
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

About the author

Harry Sidebottom

Harry Sidebottom teaches classical history at Oxford University, and is the bestselling author of fifteen novels. His debut trade non-fiction book, The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome, was published in 2022 and was a Book of the Year in the Spectator, the Financial Times and BBC History.

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Praise for Warrior of Rome VI: The Amber Road

Blazes with searing scholarship

The Times

Sidebottom has the touch of an exceptionally gifted storyteller, drawing on prodigious learning

Tim Severin, author of the 'Vikings' trilogy

Gruesome, Gladiator-style battle scenes and well-researched detail

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