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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"It's not easy being the king's brother, especially when he earmarks you for execution. Fearing a potential rival for the throne of Persia, King Artaxerxes follows his late father's advice and orders his younger brother, Cyrus, be put to death. Backed into a corner, the heretofore loyal Cyrus raises an army of Greek mercenaries and rebels, challenging the mighty Persian army. In true Iggulden fashion, swords clash and blood flows as extreme sibling...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
In the year 937, the new king of England, a grandson of Alfred the Great, readies himself to go to war in the north. His dream of a united kingdom of all England will stand or fall on one field--on the passage of a single day. At his side is the priest Dunstan of Glastonbury, full of ambition and wit (perhaps enough to damn his soul). His talents will take him from the villages of Wessex to the royal court, to the hills of Rome--from exile to exaltation....
Author
Series
Conqueror volume 4
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Genghis Khan is dead, but his legend and his legacy live on. His son Ogedai has built a white city on a great plain and made a capital for the new nation. Now the armies have gathered to see which of Genghis' sons has the strength to be khan. The Mongol empire has been at peace for two years, but whoever survives will face the formidable might of their great enemy, China?s Song dynasty. The great leader Tsubodai sweeps into the west: through Russia,...
Author
Series
Conqueror volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
2010 Bantam Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
400 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Conqueror volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Second in a series on the mighty Mongol conqueror who sets out to unify an entire continent under his rule. In this volume, he sets his sights on Yenking (modern day Beijing, China). Follows "Genghis : birth of an empire" ; continued by "Genghis : bones of the hills."
Author
Series
Conqueror volume 3
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The mighty Mongol conqueror, Genghis Khan, wreaks a path of destruction along China's Great Wall.
Author
Series
Athenian novels (Conn Iggulden) volume 1
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"In ancient Greece an army of slaves gathers on the plains of Marathon...Under Darius the Great, King of Kings, the mighty Persian army--swollen by 10,000 warriors known as The Immortals--have come to subjugate the Greeks. In their path, vastly outnumbered, stands an army of freeborn Athenians. Among them is a clever, fearsome, and cunning soldier-statesman, Xanthippus. Against all odds, the Athenians emerge victorious. Yet people soon forget that...
Author
Series
Wars of the Roses volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 404 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The third beautifully written novel in the War of the Roses series by bestselling author Conn Iggulden. 'Superbly plotted and paced' The Times *** - Winter 1461 - Richard Duke of York is dead, his ambitions in ruins, his head spiked on the walls of the city. King Henry VI is still held prisoner. His Lancastrian Queen rides south with an army of victorious northerners, accompanied by painted warriors from the Scottish Highlands. With the death of...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 414 pages : maps, geneaological charts ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The brilliant retelling of the Wars of the Roses continues with Margaret of Anjou, the second gripping novel in the new series from historical fiction master Conn Iggulden. As Traitors Advance...A Queen Defends It is 1454 and for over a year King Henry VI has remained all but exiled in Windsor Castle, struck down by his illness, his eyes vacant, his mind a blank. His fiercely loyal wife and Queen, Margaret of Anjou, safeguards her husband's interests,...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"With an army made in his own image, Caesar begins a daring charge through Gaul, across the English Channel, and to the wilds of tribal Britain. Here, in a series of cataclysmic clashes, the legend of Julius Caesar will be forged. And while Caesar and Brutus battle the armies of the wilderness, their politicial adversaries in Rome grow ever more powerful. For when the fighting is over, the greatest danger to Julius Caesar will await him on the Tiber...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delta Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two boyhood friends, Gaius Marius and Marcus, now grown to manhood, are thrust into the grip of bitter conflict as every Roman prepares to take sides in the coming civil war between Sulla and Marius. Their friendship is further tested as they vie for the the love of an extraordinary slave girl.
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