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ISBN: 9780755324385 - Fire and Sword
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Fire and Sword

Simon Scarrow

ISBN: 9780755324385
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Headline Publishing Group
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CENTURION, the latest novel in Simon Scarrow's Roman series, was on the Sunday Times hardback bestseller list for several weeks, reaching the No. 2 position and then became a Sunday Times paperback bestseller in the same year

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The third title in bestselling author Simon Scarrow's Revolution series: a quartet of novels focusing on two giants of European history, Wellington and Napoleon. In the early years of the nineteenth century, Arthur Wellesley (elevated to Viscount Wellington in the course of the novel) and Napoleon Bonaparte are well established as men of military genius. Wellesley has returned from India, where his skill and bravery made a remarkable impression on his superiors. He faces trials and tribulations on the political scene before becoming embroiled militarily in Copenhagen, then Portugal and finally Spain. Napoleon, established as Emperor, is cementing his control on Europe, intending finally to crush his hated foe across the Channel: Great Britain. The time is fast approaching when Wellington and Napoleon will come face to face in confrontation - and only one man can emerge victorious...
 
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