A Winter War
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
A Winter War
Buy Now for £13.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
-
Narrated by:
-
Gordon Griffin
-
By:
-
Tim Leach
About this listen
A disgraced warrior must navigate a course between honour and shame, his people and the Roman Empire, in the first of a new trilogy set in the second century AD, from the author of Smile of the Wolf.
AD 173. The Danube lies frozen. On its banks gather the clans of Sarmatia, their riders winter starved by sickly herds and blighted crops. Petty feuds cast aside and their disparate numbers united in the face of a great enemy. For across the frozen waters stands the mighty Roman Empire, and its Legion marches ever closer.
But the Sarmatians are proud, and they are cast from the ice itself. They were trained from young to ride and fight and kill on its slippery surface. They cannot lose.
They charge....
Alone on a bloodied battlefield awakens Kai. Surrounded by the bodies of his people, fallen to the Legion, to have survived is a disgrace. In the aftermath of such defeat, he must navigate a course between honour and shame, his people and the Empire. It is a journey that will take him far to the West, beyond everything he has ever known.
©2021 Tim Leach (P)2021 W F HowesListeners also enjoyed...
![Heroes Road: Volume One [Dramatized Adaptation] cover art](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51DDymIjfGL._SL240_.jpg)
Can’t wait for the next instalment and to see what Tim Leach can do in a more familiar landscape.
Atmospheric and engaging prose
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
An interesting book, good plot, interesting characters, both likable and irritating. A good read, a good narrator, a solid purchase for anyone considering.
Beyond the known.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Enthralling
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Tim Leach has won awards for his historical fiction and here he has the chance to immerse us in his research, but also some leeway to use his imagination. History hints that Sarmatian women also rode to war, and he builds this into his world-building effectively.
Leach's forte is bringing the people's lives and the landscape to the forefront of the tale and he indulges in both here.
Good stuff: this is more imaginative than just heroes and swordplay, with realism the winner; we get a convincing feel for the period.
Not so good: he overworks the landscape and people analogies so that they can overshadow the story. We spend a lot of time in the characters heads without them coming truly to life.
Overall: enjoyable and better than most of its rivals.
Tribe of horsemen destabilises Rome
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.