Following Hannibal's defeat by Publius Cornelius Scipio at the Battle of Zama in 202 BC, Rome dramatically reduces the size of its Army and withdraws her Legions from Northern Italy. Carthaginian General Hamilcar though had remained in Northern Italy after Mago's defeat in 203 BC to stir the Gauls to rebellion against Rome, leading to the sacking of the Roman colony at Placentia and the siege of the colony at Cremona. Rome responds to the threat by sending three Legions to the area who com...

Same book, new cover. Historical fiction, written by a 28 year U.S. Army veteran, follows Rome's Legio XVII from its creation to final battle and puts you in the minds of Praetor Manius Tullus and his Centurions as they plan and fight their way across Northern Italy and Austria. Praetor Tullus, a survivor of Cannae, recruits, trains and leads Legio XVII on a 30-month independent expedition to face battle-hardened Gallic and Germanic tribes. Meanwhile, in southern Italy, 23 Roman Legions ba...

Set during the 2nd Punic War, this book immerses readers in battlefield clashes, innovative tactics, strategic planning, and inspiring leadership. It starts when Timur, Chief of the Cimbri/Teuton Tribes, leads 300,000 people on an epic six year 700 mile migration through land occupied by hostile and friendly Tribes from Jutland to the Danube River. Timur's 90,000 man Army crosses the river at night and overpowers the Suevi defenders, whose leader, Bethica, appeals to Rome to repel the inva...

Legio XVII Series, Book 3 (historical fiction): Following Scipio's victory at Ilipa, Spain in 206 BC, Mago Barca, Hannibal's brother, sails with his army to the northern Italian port of Genoa in 205, to attempt to do what his brother Hasdrubal failed to do in 207: reinforce the embattled Hannibal. Mago recruits mercenaries from as far away as Illyria (modern Albania) and Posonium (modern Slovakia). Praetor Manius Tullus leads Legiones XVII and V Etrusci to Verona to prevent the mercenaries...

From the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s, a group of transgender people on both sides of the Atlantic created communities that profoundly shaped the history and study of gender identity. By exchanging letters and pictures among themselves they established private networks of affirmation and trust, and by submitting their stories and photographs to medical journals and popular magazines they sought to educate both doctors and the public.Others of My Kind draws on...

This book constitutes the post-proceedings of the 6th International ICST Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, MONAMI 2014, held in Würzburg, Germany, in September 2014. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. In addition, MONAMI 2014 hosted a workshop on enhanced living environments which also featured 10 papers. The volume is organized thematically in six parts, covering: LTE networks, virtualization and software defined netw...

Young Titus Porcinianus Pullus has survived his first campaign, following in the footsteps of not only his father, but his illustrious namesake, Titus Pullus. His achievements come to the notice of his Primus Pilus and he is promoted into the First Cohort as a result of his actions. However, as he is about to discover, the "Pax Romana" created by the first Emperor, Caesar Augustus, is still fraught with peril and danger. In this new era of peace, as Titus discovers, the direst threat to hi...

Marcus Caius, a Roman legionnaire in the Tenth Legion, has served for the entirety of Julius Caesars Gallic War. Lately, however, British soldiers have begun to reinforce the Gallic army. With the province of Belgica now under control, Caesar plots a reconnaissance-en-force to the island of Britannia before the onset of winter, and Marcus is to be among the force. Before long, the expedition suffers setbacks, and the Legionnaires are left to fend for themselves and find a way to cross the ...

In the next installment of the Marching With Caesar® saga, Titus Pullus has died peacefully in his sleep after retiring as Camp Prefect and achieving his goal of being elevated to the equestrian order. However, Augustus has decreed that his status will not be inherited by his adopted son and heir, Gaius Porcinus. Consequently, Porcinus is still in the ranks of the Legions where he marches with Tiberius Claudius Nero and his brother Drusus to quell the first of what will be a period of rebe...

Early autumn 105 AD. As the clouds of war gather on the Danube frontier, Marcus, retired veteran of the 2nd Batavian auxiliary cohort faces a renewed and catastrophic threat to his family and his farm on the isle of Vectis. Powerful, vengeful forces and a dangerous, resourceful opponent are stalking his family home, intent on taking it from him. Forced onto the run to protect a secret that his enemies wish to use against him, Marcus heads for Rome where he hopes to set matters right. But a...

July 113 AD. Seven peaceful years have passed since the successful conclusion of emperor Trajan's Dacian war. Marcus, now a Roman senator and loyal if lukewarm supporter of the powerful senatorial faction committed to world conquest, finds meaning in his military charity work and seeing his family grow and prosper. But to the east in the Roman provinces bordering the mighty Parthian empire, trouble is brewing. The aging emperor Trajan has set his sights on the strategically important kingd...

Summer 105 AD. There has been no news from Marcus for over a year. On the Isle of Vectis, Marcus's family are beginning to despair that he will ever return from his epic sea voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.At the Legionary Fortress of Deva Victrix, home of the Twentieth Legion, Marcus's nineteen year old son, Fergus, a soldier, dreams of becoming like his grandfather, Corbulo; a hero of the Legion. And soon opportunity beckons. In faraway Dacia, war has broken out once more betwee...