Review: Excelent alternative history
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 17, 2014
Jones is either a Late Empire historian or should play one on TV. Cato's Cavalry is really excellent in character development, plot development and in keeping the single McGuffin (introduction of stirrups into Europe in the Fourth Century) and letting things unfold from there. Jones' knowledge of Rome during the period is very impressive. It's worth noting that the Central Asian horse folk used stirrups as far back as the Han (150BC to 150AD). Those were the Hsuing-nu, the probable proto-Huns.