About the Author:
I am a 54 year old retired Infantry Marine, born and raised in Texas and currently living on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. I have been writing since my first novel, written at the age of 10, when my friends and yours truly fought off the Soviet hordes, who just happened to pick my block to launch their invasion. That was their big mistake. But like a lot of dreams, it got sidetracked until recently, when I decided to focus my passion on an era and subject that interested me a great deal. Like my characters in Ancient Rome, I have served as the pointy tip of the spear of our nation's policy, and it is with this perspective that I tell the story of Titus Pullus and his friends. This is my first published novel, and is the first in a completed four-book series that covers the career of Titus Pullus.
Review:
In R. W. Peake's...Marching with Caesar: Conquest of Gaul, readers follow the story of Titus Pullus. Peake, a retired infantry Marine, brings to the familiar story of Caesar's conquest of Gaul the gritty, boots-on-the-ground realism of personal experience, and the results are amazingly compelling.....Peake's exhaustive research shows on every page, but always fascinating, never tedious......the dialogue crackles with realism... Fans of Roman historical fiction--or military fiction just in general--shouldn't miss what looks to be one heck of a series.
-The Historical Novel Society
"The hinge of history pivoted on the career of Julius Caesar, as Rome's Republic became an Empire, but the muscle to swing that gateway came from soldiers like Titus Pullus. What an amazing story from a student now become the master of historical fiction at its best." ~ Professor Frank Holt, University of Houston
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