The Coffee Pot Book Club: Blog Tour: The Walls of Rome by Robert M. Kidd

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The Walls of Rome

The Histories of Sphax Series, Book #1

by Robert M. Kidd

*5th Publication Anniversary Tour*

June 2nd - 4th, 2025

Publication Date: June, 2020

Publisher: independently published

Pages: 419

Genre: Historical Fiction / Ancient Historical Fiction

‘not only have we scaled the mighty Alps, I believe

we have climbed the very walls of Rome’
~ Hannibal

218 BC. Sphax is seventeen and haunted by the brutal murder of his parents at the hands of Rome. After ten years of miserable slavery he will make his last bid for freedom and go in search of Hannibal’s army and his birthright. He will have his revenge on the stinking cesspit that is Rome!

Destiny will see him taken under the wing of Maharbal, Hannibal’s brilliant general, and groomed to lead the finest horsemen in the world – the feared

Numidian cavalry that would become the scourge of Rome.

From the crossing of the great Rhodanus River, Sphax’s epic journey takes him through the lands of the Gaul to the highest pass in the Alps. This is the story of the most famous march in history. A march against impossible odds, against savage mountain Gauls, a brutal winter and Sphax’s own demons.

This is more than a struggle for empire. This is the last great war to save the beauty of the old world, the civilized world of Carthage, Greece and Gaul. The world of art and philosophy – before it is ground into dust by the upstart barbarity of Rome.

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Robert M. Kidd

When Cato the Censor demanded that ‘Carthage must be destroyed,’ Rome did just that. In 146 BC, after a three-year siege, Carthage was razed to the ground, its surviving citizens sold into slavery and the fields where this once magnificent city had stood, ploughed by oxen. Carthage was erased from history.

That’s why Robert is a novelist on a mission! He wants to set the historical record straight. Our entire history of Hannibal’s wars with Rome is nothing short of propaganda, written by Greeks and Romans for their Roman clients. It intrigues him that Hannibal took two Greek scholars and historians with him on campaign, yet their histories of Rome’s deadliest war have never seen the light of day.

The hero of The Histories of Sphax series tells a different story!

When Robert is not waging war with his pen, he likes to indulge in his passion for travel and hill walking, and like his hero, he also loves horses.

Robert lives in Pembrokeshire, West Wales.

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