Broken Shield : Bauer Photography and Media : 9781838400606 : 1838400605 : 02 Feb 2021 : The caw of foraging gulls and whisper of waves gliding up the beach were things of the past. Now sunshine lit the coloured plumes of horsehair that marked the senior men among the onrushing legionaries. Pumping legs sent water spraying high as the Romans from the remaining ships charged from the sea to the aid of their fellows. Whistling over their heads, iron bolts thrown from the machines on the warships' decks slammed with sickening regularity into Bastetani warriors. Baria is left a smoking ruin. The townspeople killed or enslaved by the Romans. Determined to strike back, Caros learns from a survivor of a sunken galley that the Romans have hidden two warships on the coast. Desperate to raise more warriors to his column, Caros must first prove to the Iberians that he can defeat Rome's iron-hard legionaries. After a bloody battle that earns him a narrow victory, he marches north and his col