《Empire of the Eagle 》作者：- Andre Norton & Susan Shwartz【EPUB】

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ANDRE NORTON AND SUSAN SHWARTZ ?? ?? ?? A TOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES BOOK NEW YORK ?? ?? ?? This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitiousand any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. EMPIRE OF THE EAGLE. Copyright ?? 1993 by Andre Norton and Susan Shwartz. All rights reserved including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in anyform. Cover art by Peter Goodfellow. A Tor Book. Published by Tom Doherty Associates Inc. 175 Fifth Avenue. New York NY 10010. Tor is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates Inc. ISBN: 0-812-51393-2 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 93-26551 First edition: November 1993 First mass market edition: May 1995 Primed in the United States of America.098765432 ?? ?? Introduction by Andre Norton ?? ?? It was a soldier of hardly more than peasant birth but possessing the spark of military geniusand practical knowledge who forged that steel-hard backbone which upheld first the Romanrepublic and then the Empire— the Legion. Up to the time of Marius men had fought hard andwell but the loose formation of an army founded on what had been a militia of citizens calledout in times of national danger was not the weapon a leader convinced of his own destiny needed—or wanted. The concept of the professional soldier whose home was truly the army itself and whose god wasthe Eagle of the Legion to which he was oathed was born. In spite of the bloodbath ordered bySulla jealous of his predecessors power the idea of the Legion—and the Eagle— remaineduntil it was accepted as the only possible answer to warfare with both barbarians of theborders and the trained armies of any others who dared to resist the expansion of Rome. To suffer such defeat as to lose an Eagle was a shame so dark that it could only be washed outin blood. Probably the most notable of such losses was the massacre of three of AugustusCaesars Legions—and the loss of their Eagles—by Quinctilius Varus in the Teutoberger WaldAugustus is said to have lamented quotVarus Varus give me back my Legionsquot But