The Misplaced Legion & An Emperor for the Legion

✍ Scribed by Turtledove, Harry

• Book ID: 107570011
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 1 MB
• Series: Videssos 1-02
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780345545695

✦ Synopsis

Experience one of the most beloved series in fantasy--as could only be imagined by ''the standard-bearer for alternate history'' (USA Today).

Harry Turtledove's many New York Times bestsellers provide an intriguing take on history's most crucial moments, but he honed his speculative talents in a different genre: fantasy. The Videssos Cycle is the perfect fusion of the two. Collected here are the first two novels of Turtledove's one-of-a-kind saga, in which a Roman legion is transported to a strange realm where magic rules.

THE MISPLACED LEGION

In a duel for survival, the Roman military tribune Marcus Aemilius Scaurus raises his sword, blessed by a Druid priest, against a Celtic chieftain, who brandishes a blade of his own. At the moment the weapons touch, Marcus and his legion find themselves under a strange night sky, full of unfamiliar stars, where Rome and Gaul are unknown. They are in an outpost of the embattled Empire...