WOUNDS OF HONOUR:EMPIRE 1 - Hodder

THRILLING, AUTHENTIC AND ACTION-PACKED, WOULDS OF HONOUR IS THE STORY OF A FIGHTING MAN IN THE ANCIENT WORLD'S TOUGHEST AND MOST SUCCESSFUL ARMY.Marcus Valerius Aquila has scarcely landed in Britannia when he has to run for his life- condemned to dishonourable death by power-crazed Emperor Commodus. Desperate, the Practorian Guard officer agrees to take a new name, serve in an obscure regiment on Hadrian's wall and lie low until he can hope for justice.Then a rebel army sweeps down from the wastes north of the Wall, and Marcus has to prove he's hard enough to lead a century in the front line of a brutal war with a merciless enemy.