Arthur Britannicus

Name: Arthur Britannicus
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by Paul Bannister Book 1 in the The Forgotten Emperor Series series.

First published 2013

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As a boy, Mauseus Carausius watches his warrior father murdered and grows up determined to master the military system that destroyed his family. He joins the Roman army, learns the discipline of the legions and earns command through campaigns that test both his courage and his willingness to serve an empire that regards Britain primarily as a source of men and wealth.

Carausius’s success attracts patrons and enemies in equal measure. Promotion gives him the resources to imagine a different future for Britain, but every step towards independence can be interpreted as treason. The novel begins Bannister’s reconstruction of the historical usurper as the figure later remembered in legend as Arthur Britannicus.