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Empire of the Legions: Siege of a Kingdom
Paperback
Series: Empire of the Legions, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 14 2026
Pages: 254
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Trajan's army holds the high ridges under blizzard raids and hunger, while Decebalus fights a war of night, terrain, and delay. Legate Marcus Aelius Severus keeps the Thirteenth Legion intact through discipline and hard choices. Tribune Crispus, no longer a boy chasing glory, learns command in the cold-where one mistake costs a patrol, a cohort, a future. And Primus Pilus Rufus becomes the voice that keeps men from breaking when the mountain war turns merciless.
When thaw comes, Rome cuts roads deeper into the rock, takes hillforts, and tightens a ring around the Dacian capital. Decebalus wagers everything on a final counterstroke in the open, but Roman planning, reserves, and engineering turn desperation into catastrophe. Then the siege begins: trenches, towers, mines, and a water supply cut until a kingdom chokes on its own pride.
Yet conquest is not only won in mud and smoke. In Rome, victory must be made eternal-paraded in a Triumph and carved into stone-while the men who fought it carry the truth that marble leaves out.
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