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Cell 211 (2009)

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The story of two men on different sides of a prison riot -- the inmate leading the rebellion and the...

Star Wars: Chewbacca

Gerry Duggan

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Known as the skilled co-pilot of the infamous Millennium Falcon, the legendary Wookiee warrior...

Slaine the Brutania Chronicles: Psychopomp

Pat Mills and Simon Davis

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Albion, in a time of legend. Celtic warrior SL AINE united the tribes of the Earth Goddess Danu and...

Pregnancy Due Date Calculator - My Baby Wheel & Countdown Birth Calendar

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The Usurper King (The Plantagenet Legacy #3)

Mercedes Rochelle

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From Outlaw to Usurper, Henry Bolingbroke fought one rebellion after another. First, he led his...

Historical Fiction Henry IV Plantagenet

Captured (The Captive, #1)

Erica Stevens

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Taken from her beloved family and woods, Aria’s biggest fear isn’t death... it’s becoming a...

Choices of One (Star Wars Legends)

Timothy Zahn

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Timothy Zahn comes a brand-new Star Wars adventure, set in...

David McK (3562 KP) rated Rebellion (Eagles of the Empire #22) in Books

Apr 4, 2024

Entry number 22 in Simon Scarrow's long-running Macro and Cato series, and we're finally at what has been building for a while: Boudicca's Rebellion.

Which, like the French with Napoleon at Waterloo, if you knew nothing about British history you might be forgiven for thinking she won (she lost).

The majority of the novel is taken up with the impact the Rebellion had on the Romans in the south of England and (in particular) in London, with Macro and Cato still separated at the start of the novel and with the former in captivity amongst Boudicca's army following the fall of the veterans colony in the former novel, and facing quite gruesome execution.

I have to say, I was actually surprised how little of this novel was spent on the final pitched battle between the Romans and the Britons, with more of it spent on describing the sense of desperation and the breakdown of law and order (well, that's what the Romans would have said) as Boudicca's horde descends on London.