Harry Sidebottom: Warrior of Rome (Part One): Fire in the East. Signed, Lined & Dated!!

 This is a first edition and first printing of Warrior of Rome: Fire in the East by Harry Sidebottom, published by Michael Joseph in 2008.

The book and protected dust jacket are Brand New. The book has no inscriptions and the dust jacket is not price clipped.

Signed, Lined and Dated by the Author to the title page!!

Lined with: "War is hell. Civil war is worse."

Synopsis:
AD 255 - the Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged throughout the territories and along every border. Yet the most lethal threat lurks far to the east in Persia, where the massing forces of the Sassanid Empire loom with fiery menace. The far-flung and isolated citadel of Arete faces out across the wasteland, awaiting the inevitable invasion. One man is sent to marshall the defences of this lonely city - one man to shore up the crumbling walls of a once indomitable symbol of Roman power - a man whose name itself means war, a man called Ballista. Alone, Ballista is called to muster the forces and the courage to stand first and to stand hard against the greatest enemy ever to confront the Imperium. In the bestselling tradition of Bernard Cornwell and Conn Iggulden, comes a block-busting voice in historical adventure fiction.