Publisher's Synopsis
In this first book, the Germanic warrior Arminius fights in Rome's Imperial Legions, brutally suppressing a revolt in the neighboring Roman province of Illyria in the year 6AD. Having been stolen from his Germanic homeland fifteen years before, the young Arminius grew up in Rome where he was forced to join the empire's auxiliary forces. When the Illyrians rebel, Rome is caught by surprise. Arminius and his auxiliary cavalry unit made up of other displaced Germanic warriors are deployed to defend the empire's homeland from a fast-approaching enemy horde...
Based on true events, Book I of The Arminius Chronicles provides background on the warrior, who will later in his life unite the Germanic tribes for the first time in a revolt against the Roman Empire he served in. According to folklore, the Battle of the Teuteburg Forest which Arminius choreographed in the year 9AD, is the very beginning of Germany's national epic, the body of literature that the gives the nation its historic identity. Historical Fiction Media - Where history comes alive
