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Legionary

Roman Rebellion

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Legionary

By: Griff Hosker
Narrated by: George Weightman
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Through sacrifice a fighter is born.

When poverty strikes, an ageing farmer is forced to make a heartbreaking choice: relinquish his oldest son in the hope of appeasing the gods or see his family face certain starvation. And so it follows that young Lucius Ulpia Porcianus is sacrificed to Rome.

Embarking on his new life, Lucius travels to Ancona to enlist in the legion. Accepted into the army of Pompey, the young recruit soon finds himself engulfed in the civil war between Sulla and the Marians. As a callow youth, torn from the land of Picenum, can Lucius put his days as a pig farmer behind him and embrace life as a legionary? Or will the brutality of war seal his fate?

The first tale in the captivating Roman Rebellion series by Griff Hosker.

©2025 Griff Hosker (P)2025 W.F. Howes Ltd. Action & Adventure Ancient Genre Fiction Historical Fiction War & Military War Rome
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Fantastic from Griff Hosker and narration is brilliant can’t wait for the next book. Not my normal listen but this first book has me hooked, I’ll leave the Viking, Norman and Plantagenet timeline for a little,

Fantastic New Novak

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Excellent story and so well written and preformed just brilliant it’s a pity griff is not writing more of this character.

Brilliant story

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Didn’t enjoy this anywhere as much the archer, hawkwood or Tudor books.
I enjoy Hosker books usually as they’re not too complicated and the characters develop. Here the weapons are unknown. The characters emerge briefly and there’s not much interaction with the home of the main character. Lots of really detailed descriptions of how enemies died.
Usually, snap up Hosker books and can’t wait for the next ones. Have gone back to re-listen to the English medieval stories again as I can’t find anything else I like in all the historical fiction audiobooks.

Complicated as history unknown

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