James Mace Books in Order

A year after the last revolt, Artorius faces a darker enemy, political corruption and power struggles inside Tiberius' empire. Personal loyalty and imperial intrigue pull him into a story where swords are not the only weapons.

Centurion Valens is drawn into a dangerous knot of Roman power, fear, and hidden agendas. This short Roman tale leans less on big campaigns and more on the deadly pull of imperial intrigue.

When oppressive Roman taxes drive the Frisians into revolt, Centurion Artorius marches north with a century full of raw recruits. The campaign tests his leadership and shows how quickly a frontier war can turn heartbreaking.

During the 1812 siege of Badajoz, Lieutenant James Webster volunteers to lead the first men through the breach. It is a short, bloody Peninsular War story about courage, loss, and near-certain death.

Picking up after Badajoz, this novel follows British soldiers through the long road to Waterloo. James Mace pairs major campaigns with the scars his characters carry, on the field and long after it.

Six years after the disaster in the Teutoburg Forest, young Artorius marches with Germanicus into Germania. What begins as a quest for vengeance becomes the start of a long Roman soldier's life.

Three years after the German campaigns, unrest flares inside the empire itself. Artorius and his comrades march into Gaul to crush rebellion, only to learn that betrayal can come from Roman soil as easily as barbarian lands.

With Tiberius secluded on Capri, Sejanus tightens his grip on Rome through treason trials and fear. Tribune Aulus Cursor uncovers the conspiracy and risks everything to stop a ruthless bid for the imperial throne.

Artorius is sent to Judea, where Roman rule is tense and every decision carries political and religious weight. Far from the Rhine frontier, he finds a province where open battle is not the only danger.

An aging Artorius prepares for what he knows will be his final war as Rome readies a major invasion of Britain. It is a veteran's book, full of memory, duty, and the cost of one more campaign.

After Waterloo, Marshal Ney is condemned by the restored Bourbon regime. Mace builds on the legend that he escaped execution, turning a historical mystery into a story of honor, exile, and second chances.

Revolt breaks out in Judea, and Josephus must defend Galilee against Rome's returning war machine. What begins as resistance quickly turns into a harsher story of siege, factionalism, and impossible odds.

After the fall of Jotapata, Vespasian drives deeper into Galilee and Judea while Jerusalem tears itself apart from within. Roman pressure and zealot infighting turn the revolt into a spiral of terror and loss.

Nero's fall leaves Rome open to rival claimants, scheming courtiers, and marching legions. As Galba, Otho, and Vitellius battle for power, the empire slides into civil war and Vespasian waits in the east.

Rome's first civil war deepens as Vitellius and Vespasian struggle for the throne. The book blends battlefield momentum with imperial politics, showing how a new ruling house fights its way out of chaos.

War looms between Britain and the Zulu kingdom as armies move toward invasion. The campaign builds to Isandlwana, where confidence, confusion, and raw courage collide in one of the era's most devastating battles.

Four years after Rome's invasion of Britain, Centurion Magnus Flavianus marches west against Caratacus. Haunted by personal loss, he heads into the mountains of Wales looking for victory, punishment, and maybe a little peace.

As the Flavian house rises in Rome, the war in Judea closes around Jerusalem. Roman siegecraft, famine, and factional violence inside the city drive this final volume toward one of antiquity's bleakest endings.

In the wake of Isandlwana, a small British garrison at Rorke's Drift faces overwhelming attack. James Mace turns the famous defense into a tense close-quarters story of endurance, fear, and stubborn resolve.

Captured north of the Danube, Verus is sent to quarry stone for Vespasian's great amphitheater, then forced into the arena as a gladiator. Freedom is possible, but only if he survives Rome's hunger for blood.

A British force cut off at Eshowe must endure isolation, sickness, and constant threat while the war around it worsens. This chapter of the campaign trades quick victory for a slower fight to hold on.

After the shock of Isandlwana, British forces regroup for another clash in Zululand. At Khambula, fear, wounded pride, and hard marching turn the coming battle into a grim test of nerve and command.

With Khambula and Gingindlovu behind them, the war drives toward its final reckoning. Exhausted soldiers and a battered Zulu kingdom move through grief, retaliation, and the long shadow of a collapsing campaign.

Rome pushes deeper into northern Britain, where highlands, tribal alliances, and imperial pride turn every march into a gamble. An Artorian officer must prove himself in a campaign that tests both Roman discipline and the dream of conquest.

Exiled prince Tuathal Techtmar asks Rome to help him reclaim the high kingship of Ireland. Governor Agricola sends an auxiliary force across the sea into a land of famine, prophecy, and rival kings.

An uneasy peace along the Danube breaks down as rival Sarmatian kingdoms and Rome edge toward war. On a frontier where diplomacy fails fast, Artorian soldiers are pulled into a brutal struggle of cavalry, ambition, and revenge.

In A.D. 89, the disgraced Legio XXI is sent to the Danube after revolt in Germania. Young Tiberius Artorius Castus arrives just as tribal uprisings and Sarmatian cavalry push the legion toward a desperate fight for survival.

An old humiliation on Rome's edge still festers, and soldiers are sent beyond the line to answer it. The result is a frontier campaign about honor, endurance, and how hard it is to reclaim lost ground.

Two years after an uneasy peace, Trajan returns to finish the war in Dacia. Roman ambition, stubborn resistance, and the collapse of kingdoms drive this volume toward a harder, larger conquest.

A new age begins in Rome, but renewal comes with fresh campaigns and new uncertainties. As power shifts after the Flavians, the Artorian line is drawn back into service where ambition and war rise together.

After the destruction of Legio XXI, veterans try to build lives away from the Danube. But under a changing empire, Roman politics prove just as dangerous as the frontier they thought they had left behind.

This edition returns to Artorius's beginning, six years after Teutoburg, as Germanicus leads Rome back into Germania. Vengeance, training, and battle shape the first steps of a young legionary's long career.

Peace with Parthia unravels as Rome turns east once more. Tiberius Artorius Castus marches toward Armenia and Mesopotamia, where diplomacy, supply lines, and imperial ambition all point toward a larger war.

In A.D. 115, Trajan drives south through Mesopotamia while Parthia struggles to answer him. Tiberius Artorius Castus marches toward the Persian Gulf in a campaign shaped by desert heat, distance, and imperial overreach.

Rome's eastern victories are souring into revolt, disease, and succession crisis. As Trajan weakens, Hadrian and his allies move to secure the throne while battered soldiers race to crush uprisings across the east.

After years of war in the east, Minerva's Spear returns to a troubled Britain instead of a quiet homecoming. Hadrian is on the throne now, and his restless tour of the empire brings fresh pressure to the northern frontier.

The Jacobite Rising of 1745 turns Britain into a civil war of crowns, clans, and divided families. Highland broadswords and government muskets meet in a brutal struggle over who will rule the kingdom.