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Battlefront: Cannae
(2023)(A book in the Nick Ryan's Battlefront Collection series)
A novel by Nick Ryan
On a summer’s day in 216 BC, Hannibal Barca’s Carthaginian force of mercenary soldiers faced the might of a huge Roman army arrayed on a dusty plain near the ancient village of Cannae.
Vastly outnumbered, Hannibal fought one of history’s most remarkable tactical battles and won an astonishing victory – leaving more than sixty thousand Roman soldiers dead in the aftermath of his dramatic bloody triumph.
This is not another dry dusty textbook!
This is an action-packed novel of historical fiction that depicts the Battle of Cannae in brutal detail.
The pace is relentless, the combat scenes are drenched in blood and guts, and the excitement and drama carry through to the very last pages.
From the book…
All around him the battle raged unabated; the cries, the clamor, the desperate killing, all crashing in his ears like the sound of surf pounding upon a rocky shore. He peered around and in every direction could see only death and misery.
This was the sickening reality of a battlefield, far removed from the heroic glorified tales told by poets. Here warriors died and sobbed and were maimed - and all that kept a man standing was his instinct for survival…
A hugely-muscled Celt warrior stood his ground and flailed at the Romans that surged towards him like a man on a slashing murder spree. He killed the first legionary with a savage thrust then jerked back, lunged again, and caught the next man under the jaw with the point of his sword. The Roman’s head snapped back, the blade in his throat. The Celt stomped forward.
He was soaked in blood, swimming in gore, and keening like a berserker...
Genre: Historical
Vastly outnumbered, Hannibal fought one of history’s most remarkable tactical battles and won an astonishing victory – leaving more than sixty thousand Roman soldiers dead in the aftermath of his dramatic bloody triumph.
This is not another dry dusty textbook!
This is an action-packed novel of historical fiction that depicts the Battle of Cannae in brutal detail.
The pace is relentless, the combat scenes are drenched in blood and guts, and the excitement and drama carry through to the very last pages.
From the book…
All around him the battle raged unabated; the cries, the clamor, the desperate killing, all crashing in his ears like the sound of surf pounding upon a rocky shore. He peered around and in every direction could see only death and misery.
This was the sickening reality of a battlefield, far removed from the heroic glorified tales told by poets. Here warriors died and sobbed and were maimed - and all that kept a man standing was his instinct for survival…
A hugely-muscled Celt warrior stood his ground and flailed at the Romans that surged towards him like a man on a slashing murder spree. He killed the first legionary with a savage thrust then jerked back, lunged again, and caught the next man under the jaw with the point of his sword. The Roman’s head snapped back, the blade in his throat. The Celt stomped forward.
He was soaked in blood, swimming in gore, and keening like a berserker...
Genre: Historical
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