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Titans of War
by Wilbur Smith
Book 8 in the Ancient Egyptian Series series.
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Egypt has endured decades of Hyksos occupation. Hui and the resistance led by Taita struggle to preserve forces capable of challenging an enemy that controls cities, resources and the northern kingdom. Piay’s mission to Mycenae widens the series beyond the Nile and treats the resistance as part of a network of Bronze Age kingdoms rather than an isolated national war.
Campaigns, alliances and succession disputes converge as the resistance attempts to turn survival into reconquest. The novel portrays a fictionalised liberation war at the end of the Second Intermediate Period. Espionage, diplomacy and the search for weapons become as important as open battle because Egypt cannot defeat the occupiers without external allies.
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