The Flaming Sword

by Christian Jacq Book 3 in the Queen of Freedom Trilogy series.

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The final volume follows the Theban campaign as the fight against Hyksos power moves toward decisive confrontation and reunification. Ahhotep’s political authority and the efforts of the royal house help carry Egypt from occupation into the first phase of New Kingdom recovery. The novel closes the trilogy by treating liberation as both a military victory and the restoration of Egyptian order after a divided age.

Victory is presented as the work of a dynasty and a community rather than a single warrior. The campaign joins family ambition, religious legitimacy and military resistance to foreign rule, while the approach of reunification gives private sacrifices a national meaning. The novel closes with Egypt on the threshold of the political order associated with the early New Kingdom.

Historical Periods

Hyksos Rule in Egyptc. 1650–1550 BCE Seventeenth Dynasty of Egyptc. 1580–1550 BCE Fall of Avaris and Expulsion of the Hyksosc. 1550 BCE

Genres

War Fiction

Historical people

Seqenenre Taoc. 1590s BCE–1555 BCE Ahhotep I1561 BCE–1531 BCE Kamosereigned c. 1555–1550 BCE Ahmose I1561 BCE–1526 BCE Apepic. 17th century BCE–1541 BCE