Eagles at War is the first in my 'Eagles' trilogy of novels about the Varian disaster, and although it is a work of fiction, it is peopled by historical characters and is based on real events.
Seeing the equipment, weapons, coins and even the bones of legionaries who'd died in battle didn't just fuel my imagination - it stirred my soul. I have twice visited the area of Germany in which the battle took place, and its many museums. Planning and writing a series of novels about the lead-up to this conflict, the battle itself and its aftermath has been thrilling. All my books are born from my obsession with Roman history, and this one was no different. The defeat was one of the greatest ever suffered by Rome, and the body blow it delivered was one of the reasons that the Empire never again made a serious attempt to conquer Germany. Three Roman legions were massacred by native tribes in a supremely well executed ambush.
'The battle of the Teutoburg Forest, or Varian Disaster, took place in Germany, in September of AD 9.
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