We Were Romans: Volume I

ROME DEMANDED VICTORY. THE GODS DEMANDED A PRICE. Paullus Aemilius is a man of the old breed. In a city increasingly drunk on gold, he remains a Roman of iron and discipline. Haunted by the ghosts of Cannae, he has traded the sword for the plow, finding a hard-won peace in the soil of his estate. But when the legions in Greece crumble before the phalanxes of King Perseus, the Senate turns to the one man capable of saving the Republic from humiliation. Called from the quiet of his fields to the foot of Mount Olympus, Paullus must break the power of Macedon once and for all. Yet he does not fight for glory alone. At his side ride his eldest sons, Fabius and Scipio, eager to prove their worth in the fires of war. Back in Rome, his youngest sons, Adrian and Decimus, wait for their father’s return—the innocent hopes upon which a dynasty is built. From the roar of the battlefield at Pydna to the deafening silence of a lonely garden, WE WERE ROMANS is a sweeping saga of a man who conquers an empire, only to watch his own world turn to dust. History remembers the Triumph. Only a father feels the silence.