Bücher von Claude Stahl

A story of the History of Rome. Set in 455 AD "Barbarians Vs Rome", a compelling story of conquest and divided loyalties. The story of two men, friends and confidants, doomed to be on the opposing sides set during the fall of the mighty Roman Empire.Of Vitus Maximus, a Roman Commander who lost his Legion in battle to the Vandals and who, when taken hostage, became a confidant and teacher of the Vandal King Gaiseric and of his friendship with Theodoric, a Barbarian Prince and his student. Through their eyes it reveals the story of how the Vandal tribes together with the Asian steppe riders the Alan's, cut a bloody swathe through Europe, from Germania to Hispania, across the Mediterranean sea to North Africa where they forced the remains of the Roman Empire to make their desperate last stand.Years later Theodoric journeys to Rome to meet his old teacher just as King Gaiseric makes an audacious dash to the very gates of Rome where he meets his old confidant Vitus Maximus, now a rich and influential senator and a man who now must make his own fateful decision."Barbarians Vs Rome" is a riveting, historical novel that follows the timeline of real events in late antiquity, containing vivid battle scenes, documenting an accurate use of weaponry, whilst revealing and comparing the wickedness of the Romans and character of the so-called Barbarians. An exciting and unique novel that combines the death of the Western Roman Empire with the story of a peoples struggle to survive, and of a cunning king who led his people against the mightiest Empire the world had ever seen.

fiction thrillerIt is the spring of 1944 and the outcome of World War II hangs in the balance, everything now hinges on an imminent Allied Invasion into France, D-Day. If the invasion is successful the Allies win, if it fails Germany will be the victor.Field Marshal Rommel is convinced a change in strategy and new weapons will stop the Allies, all he has to do is to convince the Fuhrer and The German High Command before it is too late. on the opposite side of the channel, each one to his own particular band of brothers. In occupied German soldier stands alongside his fellow troops, despite his apprehension at what lies knows he must do everything to fulfil his duties and maintain his honor in the oncoming hell that will be the battle for the beaches.In England an ambitious young GI has completed his training and impatiently awaits the order to embark on the boats heading for the Normandy beaches, knowing that when he disembarks he will be facing the guns and might of the German Army, and haunted by the thought that his own brother is somewhere in occupied France.  In this exciting military fiction thriller that explains Rommel''s alternative strategy and explores what could have been the outcome if he had won his struggle with his own high command, we experience the daily life and preparations of ordinary soldiers as invasion nears, and through explicit battle scenes, explore the bloody horror of the D-Day invasion through the eyes of two brothers whom fate has cast on opposing sides.