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An Oblique Approach

by David Drake, Eric Flint · 1998 · 467 pages

Book 1 of the Belisarius series

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Only three things stand between the Malwa and the conquest of Earth: Byzantium, the empire of Rome in the East; a crystal that urges mankind to fight; and Belisarius, general of the Byzantine Empire, and arguably the greatest commmander the Earth has ever known.

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Genre
science fictionalternate historyfantasywar and militaryhistorical fiction
Themes
technology
Setting
medieval
Subject
sciencehistory
Audience
adult
Length
long · 467 pages

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