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Publio Cornelio Escipión. que pasaría a la historia con el sobrenombre de Africanas. sólo tenía 26 años cuando aceptó comandar las tropas romanas en Hispania. Poseedor de las cualidades militares de su padre y su tío. el joven Escipión también heredó a algunos de los feroces enemigos de éstos. como Asdrúbal. el hermano de Aníbal. o el general pánico Ciscón. quienes planeaban derrotar a su ejército en el campo de batalla. Sus opositores también le acechaban en el mismísimo Senado de Roma. donde el todopoderoso Quinto Fabio Máximo. detractor de la familia de los Escipiones desde tiempo atrás. logró forzarle. una vez concluida la campaña en Hispania. al aceptar la demencial tarea de liderar las legiones V y VI que permanecían desde hacía tiempo olvidadas en Sicilia. Estas eran unas legiones malditas. constituidas por los soldados supervivientes a Cannae. la más humillante derrota de Roma ante Aníbal. En el exilio. las legiones habían perdido el sentido del deber. la disciplina y toda esperanza de regresar a la patria. Con esta maniobra. Quinto Fabio Máximo creía abocar al último Escipión de la estirpe a una muerte segura. Lo que Fabio Máximo no podía prever era que el joven Escipión y sus legiones malditas estaban llamados a cambiar el curso de la historia.En un fascinante relato que recrea no solamente un momento decisivo de la expansión del imperio. sino también la vida cotidiana en el esplendoroso mundo de la antigua Roma. Santiago Posteguillo hace al lector cómplice y testigo de las batallas. conquistas y derrotas de Africanus y sus ejércitos. Las legiones malditas es una trepidante novela sobre la guerra. el amor. la envidia. la amistad y la supervivencia.

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bueno pero farragosoLa novela est bien, pero el autor se extiende demasiado en la descripci n de ciertas situaciones, y lo hace en forma muy reiterativa.Todo est demasiado explicado, como si el autor no quisiera dejar nada librado a lo que el lector pueda imaginar. Es farragoso. Eso hace que, por momentos, la lectura se haga pesada. Es mejor, sin duda, el primer libro de la trilog a ("Africanus. El hijo del c nsul."). No obstante, es respetuoso de los hechos hist ricos, y trae datos interesantes sobre algunas costumbres romanas. Para el que le interese la historia de Roma, y en particular las guerras contra Cartago, le va a resultar de utilidad. 3"NOVELA HISTORICA"Segundo libro de esta trilogia historica. Bastante anema, e interesante, me atreveria a decir que en lo personal supera a la primera novela (Africanus).Teniendo una vez mas como fondo el desarrollo de la cruenta guerra entre el imperio Romano y Cartago.Las acciones militares durante las campa as estan muy bien detalladas, y los personajes estan bien logrados.Bastante recomendable para quienes gustan de la novela historica, que no te intimiden sus mas de 800 paginas, ya que la lectura es agil y amena. 4The language used by him in the saga of Africanus (The Scipio) is fluid and with a judicious use of a wonderful figurative languDr. Santiago Posteguillo is a master storyteller, and deeply familiar with the history of the Roman Empire and its expansion into Africa and Europe. The language used by him in the saga of Africanus (The Scipio) is fluid and with a judicious use of a wonderful figurative language where metaphors, similes and epithets prevail, all of which allows for a deeper characterization of the main characters and secondary, that grabs the reader from the first page to the last. Worth reading this wonderful book! I recommend with Five Stars! 5I loved this bookI loved this book, even though I'm not a fan of reading about battles, Mr. Posteguillo makes even that interesting to read. It kept me at the edge of my seat. Th only reason I gave it 4 starts is because the Kindle edition has a lot of typos throughout the book.Me encant , por lo general no me gusta leer narraciones de batallas, pero Santiago Posteguillo logra hacerlo de manera extraordinaria. Mi nica cr tica es que la edici n Kindle tiene mucho errores de dedo. 4A Superb NovelLas Legiones Malditas (The Accursed Legions) is the second in a series of three novels by Santiago Postaguillo about the life of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the conqueror of Carthage in the Second Punic War. The books are written in Spanish with no English translation available, but if your Spanish is up to the task, they are well worth reading, as they are, in this reader's opinion, the best novels in existence that deal with Scipio Africanus and the Second Punic war. This second novel spans the life of Scipio from the time he is appointed to lead the legions in Spain in 210 B.C. to the Battle of Zama, where he defeats Hannibal, in 202 B.C.Who were the Legiones Malditas? The battle of Cannae, in 216 B.C. was an unmitigated disaster for the Romans. Some 50,000 Romans were killed, including a fair number of Senators and other patricians. Some ten thousand were taken prisoner, and the Roman Senate refused to allow them to be ransomed even by their families. They were sold into slavery. The infantrymen who survived and were not taken prisoner were thought to have been cowardly. They had pledged not to leave their battle stations and had broken this pledge. Some ten thousand such men were formed into two legions, the V and the VI and were sent to Sicily in disgrace. It was determined that they would not be released from service until the end of the war. They were not allowed to reside in towns, were not allowed to recline at meals, and were given barley, thought to be an inferior grain, rather than wheat as their staple. They did assist Claudius Marcellus in his efforts in driving the Carthaginians out of Sicily, and Marcellus tried in vain to get the Senate to ease up on their conditions. Patrician survivors of Cannae, including Scipio and the son of the General Fabius Maximus, were not punished.Postaguillo describes in great detail Scipio's successes in Spain, the conquest of New Carthage, and the battles of Baecula and Ilipa. In four years he drove the Carthaginian forces from Spain, defeating four Carthaginian armies.After these phenomenal successes, Scipio's ambition is to take the war into Africa and inflict upon the Carthaginians some of the same torments and miseries that they had inflicted upon Italy for so many years. He successfully runs for Consul in 205 B.C. despite being ten years younger than the traditional minimum age. The aged General, five time Consul and twice dictator Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus Cunctator adamantly opposes such an action, insisting that Scipio should defeat Hannibal in Italy first. In the end Scipio receives permission to invade Africa if he feels it is in the interest of the state, but due to Fabius' machinations he is forbidden to levy forces for the invasion. He is able to enlist some 7,000 Roman and allied volunteers, but, in order to have sufficient forces, he must call upon the services of the Legiones Malditas-the V and VI legions that have been exiled to Sicily.The Legiones Malditas are, as might be expected, demoralized and undisciplined. Scipio has one year to get them into shape for an invasion. He finds an ally in the person of the Primus Pilus of the V, Cayo Valerio (Gaius Valerius), a decorated veteran. Even Valerio is so demoralized that when about to be interviewed by Scipio, he attempts at the last moment to hide his decorations putting them behind his back, believing that in his disgraced status displaying the decorations was unseemly. Unable to hold onto them, however, they fall to the ground and are discovered."Why are you hiding your decorations, Centurion?" Publius asked."I don't know, General. I always wear them, more to impress my men than anything else. But some time ago I lost my pride in being a soldier. These are old decorations from fighting the Gauls in the north and pirates in Illyria, but that was a long time ago, and with your speech this morning, knowing that the men of Hannibal laugh at us and ridicule us, it seemed to me that displaying these decorations is out of place for someone like me who fled like a dog at Cannae.""I also fled from Cannae, centurion of the V." replied Publius Cornelius Scipio.It took much time and effort on the part of Scipio and his devoted tribunes such as Cayo Lelio (Gaius Laelius) and Lucio Marcio (Lucius Marcius), but by the time Scipio was ready to invade Africa, the Legiones Malditas had been forged into a military force that could stand up to the best Hannibal had to offer.While Las Legiones Malditas is a superb novel, I would caution readers that it is a novel and not to be taken as literal history. In the case of the Sucro Mutiny, B.F. Liddel-Hart maintains that Scipio handled the affair as well as it could be handled. He executed the ringleaders in the traditional Roman mode of executing traitors, going back to the days of the first Consul Junius Brutus: scourging and beheading. He pardoned the rank and file, saying "Nevertheless I will plead for you to Rome and with myself, using this plea universally acknowledged among men-that all multitudes are easily misled and easily impelled to excesses." There is no historical evidence that Scipio decimated these troops. This would not have been consistent with the wise, moderate and controlled general Scipio always showed himself to be. Decimation was for incompetent generals like Marcus Licinius Crassus.Was Quintus Fabius Maximus the sadistic monster that Postaguillo depicts? Granted that he was a thorn in Scipio's side and did everything in his power to thwart him, but while Postaguillo's subplot involving Cayo Lelio, Netikerty and Fabius Maximus is a brilliant novelistic device, it is just a novelistic device. There is no historical evidence that Fabius Maximus sadistically abused his slaves. For a more balanced view of Fabius I recommend that readers read Plutarch's Life of Fabius Maximus. 5Posteguillo es uno de los m s grandes autores de la humanidadSi alguna vez han querido volver a sentir lo que se sinti al leer a Tolkien por primera vez o lo que se siente al leer a George R.R. Martin en su famoso "Juego de Tronos". Pues esta vez la lectura est a n mejor, todo lo que describe el Maestro Posteguillo es espectacular, una aproximaci n al 99% de la realidad de la poca y 100% sustentable y documentada. Sugiero empezar con "Africanus, el hijo del consul". Cuando empiecen con tal libro seguir n a este y luego a "La Traici n de Roma". Para despu s seguir a la trilog a maravillosa sobre el emperador Trajano con "Los Asesinos del Emperador" y "Circo M ximo" (los fan ticos de Posteguillo ya estamos ad portas de recibir el tercer libro que a la fecha no tiene t tulo). Cr anme que me van a agradecer en el alma por la recomendaci n que les hago. 5A Superb Trilogy!I have read both in Spanish and English numerous books on Roman history as well as historical fiction, and these Spanish originated series have got to be right there on the top. I have read all of Colleen McCullough, Anthony Everitt, Steven Saylor, Steven Pressfield, Jack Ludlow, Lindsey Davis, Valerio Maximo Manfredi, among many others, and quite frankly, I think Spanish writer Santiago Posteguillo tops them all with this trilogy on Espicion Africanus and his constant quest to beat Anibal Barca (Hannibal) from Carthige from northern Africa. It is indeed too bad that his publishers in Spain have not translated these series in English so that a broader audience may be reached to enjoy this very fine series. Hopefully they will...! 5Un momento pico de la historia UniversalLa Batalla de Zama es descrita en toda su crudeza, y representa un punto de inflexi n dram tico en la historia universal, al ver caer a An bal Bar a derrotado por primera vez por los ej rcitos de " las legiones malditas " de Roma, y en propio suelo Africano. El autor nos lleva de la mano al desayuno previo a la batalla, al discurso del proc nsul a sus soldados, y a el infierno de la guerra, entre los aullidos de los heridos, el valor de los hombres que mueren sin esperanza, los charcos de sangre y la temible carga de los ochenta elefantes contra la primera l nea de velites de los romanos. Incluye acci n y reacci n ante la traici n, la lealtad, la amistad y el saber ver m s all del momento actual, y anteponer el inter s personal, al colectivo, y en este caso, al de la historia de un Imperio. Publio Cornelio Escipion es inmortal . 4FantasticoDespues de haber leido el primer libro AFRICANUS no imagine que este segundo, LAS LEGIONES MALDITAS, pudiera superarlo en intensidad y conocimientos, agradable sorpresa cuando este ultimo me cautivo desde el primer capitulo, realmente el Sr. Posteguillo es un escritor muy bien dotado, y logra mantenerte atendo de la primera a la ultima pagina , ahora a leer el tercero y ultimo de la serie. 5Lectura insoslayable para los que gustan de la novela hist rica.Excelente escritor. Las legiones malditas colmo todas mis expectativas. Es un libro escrito originalmente en espa ol, por lo que no hay que soportar las malas traducciones que abundan demasiado, en los libros de Amazon. Bien documentado, no se hace demasiado larga su lectura a pesar de la extensi n. Es una trama apasionante a n de conociendo el desenlace. Los caracteres de los personajes est n muy bien trazados. Lectura insoslayable para los que gustan de la novela hist rica. 5
LAS LEGIONES MALDITAS: AFRICANUS (2 VOLUMEN TRILOGIA) (HISTORICA) (Spanish Edition)

LAS LEGIONES MALDITAS: AFRICANUS (2 VOLUMEN TRILOGIA) (HISTORICA) (Spanish Edition)

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