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Wall of Hadrian, Britannia, AD 367. Tribune Sixtus Victorinus is scouting north of the Wall when he first sees the smoke. Riding south he finds a province in chaos, the local populace in flight, the soldiers absent. Britannia is ablaze, overrun with barbarians and Valentia is the word on everyone’s lips. But no one seems to have the first clue what it means... Victorinus may have let his life run to ruin and drunk his youth away, but now he must forge himself into the soldier he always wanted to be, the hero his children think he is.

The tenth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series. Britain is in a state of uneasy peace...

De forma pouco usual, R. Colini retrata o conflito mais sangrento da história do país por meio de um jovem oficial do Exército Brasileiro. Enquanto se dirige ao cenário da guerra, ele marcha e canta entusiasmado com a missão que deveria cumprir: exterminar os selvagens, fanáticos e inimigos da pátria, que desafiavam a República. Era assim que pensava o país inteiro. Mas as coisas não acontecem como ele esperava.