Wounds of honour
By: Anthony Riches
Series: Empire -- 1.
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 473
ISBN-13: 9781444801996
Subjects: Fiction; History
Description: Marcus Valerius Aquila has scarcely landed in Britannia when he has to run for his life - condemned to dishonourable death by power-crazed Emperor Commodus. Desperate, the Praetorian Guard officer agrees to take a new name, serve in an obscure regiment on Hadrian's Wall and lie low until he can hope for justice. Then a rebel army sweeps down from the wastes north of the Wall, and Marcus has to prove he's hard enough to lead a century in the front line of a brutal war with a merciless enemy.
Notes: Originally published: London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2009.