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Historical action experience in the style of Bernard Cornwell and Rosemary Sutcliffe, the first choice of Fights series breathes new life into Arthurian star...."My dad was a warrior. He bade me battle..."Britain, AD 427. Rome has discontinued the province, leaving it exposed to waves of barbarian invasions. For the western world, savage pirates from Hibernia ravage the coastline. Within the North, the crumbling defenses of the Wall membrane cannot contain marauding bands of Picts as they sweep down from the highlands. Most severe of all are the Saxons, the dreaded sea-wolves. Under their chiefs, Hengist and Horsa, they would like to drive out the native Britons and lay claim the entire island for his or her own.Attacked from all attributes, the Britons find a champion by means of Ambrosius Aurelianus, the previous of the Romans. A moderate man, riddled with uncertainties and doubts, Ambrosius reluctantly takes on the mantle of Dux Bellorum, Head of Battles. Put into control of Britain's only standing army, he fights to maintain the dwindling light of civilization as the treacherous High Ruler, Vortigern, plots his destruction.Set prior to the arriving of Arthur, the first reserve of the first choice of Fights trilogy charts the climb and fall season of post-Roman Britain's first great hero, and his eager struggle to restrain the shadows threatening to engulf his country.
