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Did the Romans leave Britain, or did Britain leave Rome?
The death throes of Rome are resounding in every corner of the Empire. The rebellion of Magnus Maximus has come to a bloody end and Britannia now knows only suffering, standing at the edge of calamity, with each new disaster shaking the fragile foundations of a neglected province. The soldiers who remain are growing increasingly seditious with the incompetence and failures of their masters. While some seek to curb this dissent, more ambitious men will try to exploit it for their own ends.
Justinus Coelius, general of Britain, is fighting increasingly desperate odds to defend the land from threats which come from near at hand as well as from across the German Sea, while trying to hold on to his dying world; Vitalis Celatius, a Christian convert, is haunted by what is, and isn't, happening in the name of his God; Brenna and her sons face new danger from north of Hadrian’s Wall and realise they are alone for the first time. And the ageing Honoria begins to realise she can no longer rely on her beauty alone to remain Queen of the Underworld.
The Warlords examines the twilight of Britannia. Nearly four centuries of Roman rule will collapse in a few chaotic years. Will the Heroes of the Wall survive the storm to come? And would they recognise the new world that has descended unknowingly into the Dark Ages?
- Sales Rank: #429069 in eBooks
- Published on: 2016-01-11
- Released on: 2016-01-11
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author
Richard Denham
Richard Denham is the son of a retired sergeant in the British Army and is interested in military history. He has a young son named Tristan, and struggles to deny that he is named after one of King Arthur's knights.
Richard enjoys collaborations and is the co-author of the popular 'Britannia' series with M. J. Trow. The series follows a group of soldiers and their descendants through the madness of a chain of events which will eventually lead to the fall of Roman Britain and the descent into the Dark Ages.
Richard has also co-authored 'The Citizen Survivor' series with Steve Hart, who is one of Britain's top survivalists.
M J Trow
A bestselling author of over sixty books, including forty novels, Mei Trow is nevertheless always looking for the next new idea.
A military historian by training and consummate story-teller by inclination, he had never thought of writing about the Romans' last hurrah in Britain until he met Richard Denham and then it seemed an obvious subject for a blockbusting series.
Using Richard Denham's exhaustive knowledge and his own wide-ranging grasp of history, Mei has brought his skill in bringing the past to life to the table in this collaboration. Reviewers have often mentioned how he makes historical characters seem as though the past is "now" and not a dusty "then" and he has made this as true for fourth century Britain as for Tudor or Victorian England (the Marlowe and the Lestrade series).
As a history teacher for more years than he cares to remember, making the past live is his passion and nothing pleases him more than the many reviews that say "I wish he had been my History teacher!"
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Book #3 Roman Britain Historical Fiction
By Roses are Amber
The Warlords is book #3 in the Britannia series of historical fiction set in Roman Britain. I do suggest reading these books in order to understand the full storyline and to get a grip on all the characters.
In this book Magnus Maximus the usurper who declared himself Caesar, then Augustus and who then marched against the Roman Emperor Theodosius, is dead. Killed in battle. The Isle of Britannia is a thorn in the Roman side, troublesome and supporting threats to the throne. Theodosius intends to make a lasting impression on the people of Britannia and stamp out the uprisings.
He sends the severed head of Maximus to Britannia with the intention of having it paraded around the province. However inhabitants of the thorn in his side, send him back the head of his own man in retaliation. So instead Theodosius sends a non nonsense soldier Stilicho to teach these barbarians a lesson or two in obedience.
In Londinium few can be trusted, the underworld of the city is run by Scipio of the Black Knives, whose mother sleeps with the Vicarius who oversees Rome's business. Everyone is out for themselves and through it all shines greed.
With Rome's hold beginning to crumble the wolves are braying at the coastlines, the Saxons, Hiberni, Scotti, and more all want a piece of the land. Justinus Coelius, Dux Britannorum patrols the edges of Rome. He must deal with idiots like the Count of the Saxon Shore and hardened warriors like Niall Mugmedon, High King of Tara.
When the Emperor dies, Stilicho is recalled and Britannia is left open to the marauding hoards, can a Hero of the Wall still be a Hero against such odds? And who will be left to tell the children the tales of Britannia?
This is a grand finale to the series, there are a lot of characters and many have several names and titles which increase the cast vastly and can make for a confusing read at times. I read a paperback version and there is a glossary of Roman terms at the back and a brief map of Britannia which I would have loved to have more details on. The last quarter of the book was superb with a tense set of events to draw the series to an end.
This review is based on a free copy of the book given to me by the author.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Ave, Britannia
By Kindle Customer
This is the third in the historical series Britannia, which explores the time of Roman rule in what is now Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales). Authored by Richard Denham and M.J. Trow, The Warlords is a fitting conclusion to a compelling trilogy. I have read the previous two books, and while I recommend them all, I strongly suggest they be read in sequence. The series is built around four so-called Heroes of the Wall, who are young men in the first volume (see my reviews of both the first and second books on this blog site). Only two now survive and they are well past their prime, their weakening with age mirroring that of Roman Britannia. The time frame of the series is compressed somewhat in order to follow them into the waning era of Roman rule in its far-flung province.
Elsewhere in Europe, Rome is also in its death throes, following the bloody end of Magnus Maximus, the Roman Emperor who began his reign in Britannia.
One of two remaining Heroes, Justinus Coelius, is now the General of the Roman forces in Britannia, and he and the depleted and increasingly fractious Roman army face a myriad of threats from the wild tribes of the north and others from across the German Sea. The other Hero is Vitalis Celatius, who has become a Christian convert and a weaver of baskets with reeds from the Thames. His goal is to live a quiet life away from conflict, but his religion and reputation draw him back into political events.
In addition to Justinus and Vitalis, this book is richly populated by an array of conniving and greedy characters, some real and some fictional, better drawn and even more interesting than those in the previous two volumes. Stilicho, a historical figure, is a ruthless and loyal toady of the Emperor Theodosius and is tasked with taking the head of Magnus Maximus to Londinium (London) to teach the barbarians a lesson in Roman strength and superiority. Stilicho runs into two immoveable objects on his arrival: the unscrupulous but competent Vicarius, who oversees Rome’s business in the city, and Scipio of the Black Knives, a gang of thieves and murderers. His mother Honoria is Vicarius’ mistress.
Another historical character is Pelagius, a roving Christian evangelist, whose religion is tolerant of traditional gods and emphasizes free will. He has an enemy in the Bishop Londinium and a reluctant follower in Vitalis.
When Stilicho is recalled upon Theodosius’ death, a sequence of men declare themselves Caesar and rally various of the Army’s legions to rule the province and beyond, only to be overthrown one by one. In the meantime, Niall of the Nine Hostages, High King of Tara, is raising and plundering the western and southwestern coasts of the province. To the north, the Voltadini, a barbarian tribe and allies of the Romans who have for centuries repelled attacks from the Picts, the Scots, the Irish and the Saxons, face a deathly threat. The son of their Queen, who is the lover of Justinus, seeks to overthrow both her and the Romans by secret pacts with these same tribes.
Who can contain Niall? Can the Queen rally the Voltadini to maintain the northern regions from invasion? Who will ultimately control the legions? The book’s characters are wound within these gradually unravelling story threads and despite my knowledge of what really happened historically, the complex story kept me reading with enthusiasm. The authors have clearly taken some liberties with the history of Britannia in spinning this saga, but then again, there is much of that history that is unknown.
I recommend this third book and indeed, the whole series, and hope to visit some of the sites mentioned in the book when I next travel to England.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
The end of Britannia
By JPS
This is the third book in the Britannia Series, with the first being centred on the so-called “Barbarian Conspiracy” of AD 367 and the second on the revolt and usurpation of Magnus Maximus (AD 383-388). This one is about the end of Roman Britain and takes the story down to what should be AD 410, when Emperor Honorius informed his former subjects that they would have to seek to their own defence and needs going forwards.
I have two comments to make before going through the various pros and cons of this book. First, and to echo another reviewer, it is preferable to read these books sequentially because at least some of the characters are common and the storyline is essentially continuous. It is not, however, absolutely necessary. Second, the whole story is built around the “Four Heroes of the Wall” who were in their late teens or early twenties in AD 367. Since several of them are still part of this third book right to the end and are veterans that seem to be in their forties, the authors have in fact
implicitly compressed the timeframe. There have also omitted the rebellion and usurpation of Arbogast and his puppet Emperor in the West. Despite a number of historical quibbles where the authors have (deliberately) muddled and twisted some of the events to fit the plot, this book has a number of features that I found simply outstanding and/or original.
The first of these is the characterisation of Stilicho, which is superb with its combination of ruthlessness, cynicism and utter loyalty to the Empire and the Thedosian dynasty. He does not, however, seem to have arrived in Britannia before the death of Emperor Theodosius, but only a few years later and there is no historical record of him having to put down a military rebellion and have the usurping officer executed.
Another great (and semi-legendary) character introduced in this book is Niall No�g�allach, High King of Tara, the Irish piratical warlord better known as Niall of the Nine Hostages, but at a time where he only had accumulated four or five of them. The date of his death is quite uncertain, with various Irish Chronicles recording it between AD 379 and AD 411. However, the most important here is the vivid picture that the authors draw of the larger than life, brave, cunning and ruthless warlord boldly raiding and plundering the western and south-western coasts of Britannia with a handful of sea-borne warriors. There must have been quite a few Irish chieftains increasingly carrying out such raids at the time and some would even attempt to settle in North-West Wales while others would probably succeed in doing so in parts of Western Scotland.
A third interesting character, which this time seems to be fiction, is that of the unscrupulous, corrupt but competent Vicarius of Britannia. His motivations and plots are interestingly focused upon maintaining and increasing his power, and, of course, ensuring his own survival at any cost. While invented, the character’s behaviours are quite believable.
A fourth interesting character is that of the historical Pelagius and the “heresy” (in the eyes of those who opposed it and condemned it, of course) that bears his name. His form of Christianism was both more tolerant towards the various polytheist traditional cults than what became the “catholic” position. Its theology, by emphasising human free will as opposed to Saint Augustine (Pelagius’ fiercest critic and bitter enemy) dogmatic divine predestination, also had undertones and features that would be rediscovered by Protestants more than a thousand years later. The authors, in depicting Pelagius as a rather sympathetic and human character as opposed to his fanatical and cowardly rival the bishop of London, are, of course and quite obviously taking sides. What is true, however, is that from the 380s onwards, the Christian Church did start persecuting its rivals and requesting that civil and military authorities destroy both the temples and the worshippers of the pagan cults.
By the way, those who happen to be interested in Roman London will also find a few historical features related to it in this novel. There was a Mithraeum in Roman London. There also probably was a temple of Isis and it might have been targeted first, rather than the Mithraeum, for the reasons mentioned in the book. There also was a Roman fort in the North-Western part of the city and a garrison made of troops drawn from the legions and auxiliary units. Finally, there was the Governor’s Palace which was near the Thames, and all the other Roman buildings (basilica etc…) that could be expected for the capital of a Roman province.
A further interesting feature and plot strand is what happens in the North, beyond Hadrian’s Walls and its increasingly depleted Roman garrison. This is the story of the Votadini and how they seem to have resisted for decades the combined pressure and attacks from the Picts, the Scots and the Irish and Saxons from overseas. Whether they were helped or not and whether such help took the form and came from those shown in the book is somewhat irrelevant because we simply do not know. The scenario chosen by the authors is at least plausible, including the existence of internal rivalries, and it is also rather exciting.
A more mixed feature is about what happened in Roman Britannia during the last few years. There were indeed two usurpers which had themselves proclaimed Emperor in about AD 406. None of the two lasted more than a few months, as well shown in the book and both were quickly murdered by the troops that had raised them, even if the details of their demise are the authors’ invention. Their names are also more or less accurate although the second one seems to have been part of the Imperial administration of Britannia, as opposed to the chief gangster of Roman London.
The third, Constantine III, was indeed a soldier and an officer, although he may not have been as senior as the authors have chosen to make him be. He did, together with Gerontius – another officer of the Roman Army in Britain and a historical character – lead probably most of what was left of this army to Gaul although here again the reasons for both rebelling and for crossing to the Continent could have been further developed. Apart from perhaps wanting to shore up the defences on the Rhine which had just been comprised, other reasons may have included the fact that the troops had not been paid for a while, with the last Roman coins found in Britain and coming from the Continent dating to AD 402, some four years before Constantine rebelled. A related point is that the increasing lack of coinage would have quite quickly had some rather catastrophic effects on the economy of Roman Britain and with what was left of its trade with the Rhine region, Gaul and Spain.
An exciting and quite remarkable read which I much enjoyed, will rate four strong stars and warmly recommend.
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