The Winter Road (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798199681667)

When Tribune Aurelius Castor is ordered to abandon a northern frontier before winter closes the mountains, Rome tells him to save soldiers, records, weapons, and "persons of value"-and leave the civilians outside his walls to die. Castor burns the order. Now a starving column of soldiers, widows, children, craftsmen, the sick, and the old must cross the Alps with too little food, too few wagons, and enemies closing behind them. Gritty, morally charged, and relentless