Give Me Back My Legions!: A Novel of Ancient Rome

Bestselling author Harry Turtledove turns his attention to an epic battle that pits three Roman legions against Teutonic barbarians in a thrilling novel of Ancient Rome: Give Me Back My Legions!. Publius Quinctilius Varus a Roman politician is summoned by the Emperor Augustus Caesar. Given three legions and sent to the Roman frontier east of the Rhine his mission is to subdue the barbarous German tribes where others have failed and bring their land fully under Romes control. . Arminius a prince of the Cherusci is playing a deadly game. He serves in the Roman army gaining Roman citizenship and officers rank and learning the arts of war and policy as practiced by the Romans. What he learns is essential for the survival of Germany for he must unite his people against Rome before they become enslaved by the Empire and lose their way of life forever. . An epic battle is brewing and these two men stand on opposite sides of what will forever be known as The Battle of the Teutoberg Forest―a ferocious bloody clash that will change the course of history.