Before the Romans. Before the Parthians. Before Alexander the Great. There were the Persians.In the fertile land of ancient Persia a rising leader, Cyrus, challenges the power of the mighty Median Empire to forge a new world from the ashes of the old. Among the countless warriors who gather beneath the banner of Cyrus, one name would rise from obscurity to become both feared and revered across Persia and beyond: Kian Mihran.The son of a slave born into a noble household, th...

In the closing months of World War II, Axel Steiner, a young German soldier, fights desperately on the collapsing Eastern Front in the defence of the Third Reich. Meanwhile, Hannah Katz, a young Hungarian Jew, endures the unspeakable horrors of a concentration camp when she is forcibly evicted from her home in Budapest, clinging to memories of her family and the faint hope of freedom.As Soviet forces push west and the German Army disintegrates, Axel fights to survive against overwh...

The gods watch. Kings command. But warriors decide history.Born to a slave woman, raised among the dust and hardship of ancient Persia, Kian Mihran expects nothing from life except survival. But courage has a way of changing destiny.When a chance encounter brings the young warrior to the attention of Cyrus, the ambitious King of Persia, Kian is drawn into a world of kings, priests and empires on the brink of transformation. As Cyrus begins the campaign that will forge the g...

In the dying days of the Second World War, amid the ruins of a collapsing Third Reich, two lives briefly intersect – Hannah Katz, a Hungarian Jew who has survived the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust, and Axel Steiner, a former Waffen-SS soldier shattered by guilt and disillusionment. Their meeting is fleeting, but it bonds them both together forever.Over two years later their paths cross again, this time in Palestine, a land on the brink of transformation. As Jewish refugees p...

Congratulations on reaching a landmark birthday, Pacorus. And to celebrate the gods have sent you a present. As your friends gather at Dura to commemorate the man who is a Parthian legend, the immortals send a storm from the east to plunge the empire into fresh conflict.Do not be angry. They honour you and wish to see you doing what you do best, warlord, no matter how much blood is shed.As friends are lost and the peace he has fought so hard for crumbles before his eyes, a we...

Mark Antony has returned to Parthia to wage war against the king of kings. But Parthia has a new hero, a man born of slaves who carries an infamous name and who burns with rage against the world.The king of the wild Kingdom of Gordyene desires to arm his best soldiers with swords made from the magical metal from the east. To purchase such precious requires gold and so Spartacus steals it from an Armenian temple, along with a beautiful young novice who is the daughter of Armenia's g...

The Survival Handbook takes you through all the things you need to know about surviving disasters and staying alive in the wild, such as where to find water in the desert; how to build shelters from locally-available materials that will keep out the wind and rain but will also be ventilated; what plants are safe to eat and what are deadly poisonous; and what animals will pose a threat in survival situations.Packed with tips from the world's elite special forces and other survival specialis...

"Kings and princes think differently to you because you are Swiss. You think you are one of them. But you are not."Leon Muller's rise has been meteoric to become the most powerful individual in all Hungary, his army the most feared fighting force in the whole Balkans. Thanks to his efforts there is peace in Hungary and his friends now occupy positions of power in the kingdom. But success on the battlefield does not translate into gratitude but rather jealously and resentment. 'Home...

Vengeful rebels to the north, a deranged and bloodthirsty Vlad Dracula in the east, restless Ottoman hordes in the south and menacing Habsburgs in the west.Facing multiple threats, Leon Muller, Swiss mercenary leader and saviour of the Hungarian crown, is in the fight of his life.Leon is a man of contradictions: a brilliant battlefield tactician and ruthless warrior; a passionate lover but a flawed individual; a leader revered by his comrades but hamstrung by his own imperf...

They called themselves Companions – those who escaped from Italy with Pacorus in the aftermath of Spartacus' uprising, travelling across the Mediterranean to make their home in Parthia. They subsequently assisted Pacorus in turning the Kingdom of Dura into one of the strongest realms in the Parthian Empire.But one Companion was unwittingly left behind and condemned to the living hell of Roman slavery. When Pacorus discovers this he and a band of comrades embark on a perilous quest ...

The Sword Brothers have won a great victory and the implacable enemy of their order is dead. There is now nothing to stop the Bishop of Riga from marching north and seizing the whole of Estonia. But in the moment of triumph the seeds of future difficulties have been sown, for the bishop’s German crusaders believe that the fight against the pagans has been won and thus there is no reason for them to stay in Livonia. Faced with a lack of holy warriors to complete his task, the bishop is forc...

Did you think the gods would leave you alone, Pacorus? Did you truly believe the Romans would forget the humiliation of Carrhae and not rest until they had won back their lost eagles?Pacorus had believed the defeat of Crassus would signal the end of Roman interest in Parthia and for many years his kingdom knew peace and prosperity. But the vindictiveness of Queen Cleopatra of Egypt draws him and the Parthians into a new war, one in which they would be fighting for their very existe...