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

    Written by Harry Turtledove

    Narrated by Simon Vance

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    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 to bring their land fully under Rome's control.

    Arminius, a prince of the Cherusci, is playing a deadly game. He serves in the Roman army, gaining Roman citizenship and an officer's 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 4, 2009
    ISBN9781400181384
    Give Me Back My Legions!: A Novel of Ancient Rome
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    Harry Turtledove

    Harry Turtledove is an American novelist of science fiction, historical fiction, and fantasy. Publishers Weekly has called him the “master of alternate history,” and he is best known for his work in that genre. Some of his most popular titles include The Guns of the South, the novels of the Worldwar series, and the books in the Great War trilogy. In addition to many other honors and nominations, Turtledove has received the Hugo Award, the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, and the Prometheus Award. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles, earning a PhD in Byzantine history. Turtledove is married to mystery writer Laura Frankos, and together they have three daughters. The family lives in Southern California.

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    • 4/5
      This book isn’t always reviewed very well and isn’t nearly as good as Ben Kane’s novel on the same subject, but it’s still a good quick read. The problem, I think, most readers will have is the poor description of the battle itself, which seems to last a few hours rather than 3 days and provides almost no tactical details. To each his own I guess.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book. It is Turtledove's dramatization of the events that lead up to the 9 AD battle of Teutoburg Forest, which prevented Germany from becoming part of the Roman Empire. There are historical references to the battle, but not a lot of specifics, so Turtledove is using his imagination,but the major characters were real people and the battle itself was real. I thought this was entertaining and interesting.
    • 2/5
      The content was interesting and Turtledove's battle descriptions were excellent. His descriptions stayed true to the time period, so parts were graphic. But, he definitely kept you on the seat of your pants during the battle scene. The rest of the story, though, was long and drawn out. Turtledove also had a habit of repeating himself again and again and again and again.... If the repeated parts were edited out, and he had stuck to a brief storyline, I would have loved this book.
    • 2/5
      DisappointingThe novel "Give me back my legions" by Harry Turtledove is disappointing. The author concentrates on the psychology of the two main characters Varus and Arminius, which starts to repeat after a while. Besides this the author forgets a lot of other important things. For example I would have liked to see how Arminius managed to bring together the different Germanic tribes to common action. From a historical or novellist point of view the book is less than moderate. The novel ends with emperor Augustus reducing his plans to conquer Germany, but the fate of Arminius (murdered) and his wife and child (captured) is not part of the novel. Why? This is an integral part of this part of history! Just another disappointment. What was more interesting is the description how different cultures cannot cope with each other and fall into systematic misunderstandings on each other without escape. This could teach us something. Funny was Varus' statement that Germans and Jews are the most stubborn peoples in the Roman empire.