The War of the Crowns

Name: The War of the Crowns
Rating: 4.2 (57 reviews)

by Christian Jacq

Book 2 in the Queen of Freedom Trilogy series.

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The struggle against the Hyksos becomes a contest between rival crowns, competing claims to legitimacy and the survival of the Theban cause. Ahhotep must sustain resistance while royal deaths, military reverses and shifting alliances threaten the campaign to free Egypt. The novel places her at the centre of a war in which family loyalty, statecraft and sacred kingship are inseparable from battlefield necessity.

Historical periods

Ancient Egypt Second Intermediate Period of Egypt Hyksos Rule in Egypt Theban War against the Hyksos Fall of Avaris and Expulsion of the Hyksos

Genres

War Fiction

Historical people

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