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02155aam a2200301Ma 4500 001 1056F19EF8AB11EA88090C2751ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20200917010014 008 130401s2015 xxub 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1507561369 020 $a 9781507561362 035 $a (OCoLC)1099750661 040 $a NZAUC $b eng $c NZAUC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d SILO 100 1 $a Doherty, Gordon $d 1978- $e author. 245 14 $a The scourge of Thracia / $c by Gordon Doherty. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a [United States] : $b [CreateSpace], $c ©2015. 300 $a 395 pages : $b maps ; $c 23 cm 490 1 $a Legionary 520 $a The legions are in tatters, and the Gothic hordes are gathering beyond the mountains ... 377 AD: Thracia's legions are few and broken in the wake of the Battle of Ad Salices. But the scattered centuries and cohorts rally in an effort to blockade the Haemus Mountain passes and hold back the relentless attacks of Fritigern's swelling Gothic armies. These passes must endure until Eastern Emperor Valens and Western Emperor Gratian can muster and bring their Praesental Armies in relief. Numerius Vitellius Pavo and the men of the XI Claudia return to Constantinople from their brutal Persian sortie to hear widespread tales of Thracia's plight and the precarious mountain blockades. Each of them knows what is at stake should those passes fall: the heartland of the Eastern Empire would face the wrath of the barbarians and loved ones would be at the mercy of their savage blades. When the Claudia are despatched to aid the effort at the mountains, Pavo can think only of two souls wandering in the jaws of the Gothic threat: his beloved Felicia and his lost half-brother, Dexion. So he and his comrades march at haste, headlong into the storm that awaits them ... 650 0 $a Soldiers $z Rome $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Rome $x History $y Empire, 284-476 $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 800 1 $a Doherty, Gordon. $t Legionary ; $v Bk.4. 941 $a 1 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305020315.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1056F19EF8AB11EA88090C2751ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IW3Initiate Another SILO Locator Search