Tros of Samothrace Talbot Mundy,
Publisher: Black Mask
ISBN: 1596542594
DDC: 813
Edition: Paperback; 2008-08-02
Summary:
Complete in one volume, Talbot Mundy's legendary account of the Druid
Warrior Tros and his unwilling service to the Roman Empire. First
serialized in Adventure, the book chronicles Tros' attempts to keep
Julius Caesar from conquering the Britons, and of the young man's
efforts to free his father. Stunning for its time, this work of
action that shatters anything R.E. Howard could dream up also makes
the case that Celtic peoples were far more sophisticated than the
wicker-burning freaks they'd been painted as, and goes deeply into
the mind of Caesar, depicting the supposed Worthy as a proto-fascist
and demon fully capable of massacring comparatively defenseless
barbarians on a whim. No mere hack and slash work, Mundy's Tros grows
as the narrative presses along, and survives, ironically, in the
service of Rome. This book is the author's finest work, though one
that, sadly, ended his relationship with a publisher (who'd been
expecting something shorter, and about Cleopatra.)
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