The Gods of War

I ordered this book in “very good condition” and was disappointed to find that it came with pages missing.

If you've read any of Iggulden's other works you'll know his style: he takes history, applies creative licence, and generates a thrilling story. The four books in the Emperor series need to be read as a series, and in order to get the overall story.... but they're good stuff.

Just like every book that Conn Iggulden has written it is fast reading and hard to put down.

After reading all four books about Julius Caesar, I felt that I knew him personally. I couldn't put the books down.

I've really enjoyed the entire series, going so far as to buy a 10 euro copy of the last installation in an airport in Copenhagen. Iggulden seems to have followed actual historical events fairly closely and providing some educated insight into the personalities of these fascinating people. The only minor complaint is that the story actually seems a little rushed. It probably could have been separated into two separate novels: the final battle with Pompey and the adventures in Egypt. At the end of the historical note, Iggulden hints that he might write another novel that continues where this novel leaves off. I can only hope that he follows through.

This is the continuing saga giving an insight into the life of one of the greatest men who ever lived, Julius Caesar. A man whose deeds were legendary and possibly only surpassed by the man he admired so much, Alexander the Great. The Field of Swords deals with the period in his life when he had amassed his own legion the Tenth, comprising of men who thought of him as a God and were more than happy to follow him to hell and back. Caesar take on the unenviable task of trying to quell the fearsome tribes of Gaul with his boyhood friend Brutus by his side. This campaign takes up the major part of the book and gives an insight into the problems Julius would have encountered with the war-like tribes he came across. The book ends with another sortie into Britain. While Caesar is away from Rome his old rival Pompey is making his own plans for immortality. The two men who have had an uneasy relationship are bound to have a confrontation in the near future, one that could be fatal . . .