Slitherine

Hi

Whoever decided some of the army list books names has a decided
pro-turk anti -byzantine bias reminiscent of gibbon at his worst.

Decline and Fall (byzantium at war)
errr no - the lists go to manzikert but the byzantine empire
had a silver age under the comneni only ended by the
crusader sack of constantinople in 1204!!!
Wrong title i think
Legions triumphant (imperial rome)
Not by the end of this book they werent by the patrician period
the legions were basically defensive blocks and the west had
fallen - its legions shattered at adrianople and the internecine
slaughter of the frigidus
Wrong again
Eternal Empire (the ottoman turks at war)
Eternal hmmm - 1300 ad - 1918 ( 600 years)
Byzantium -300 ad - 1453 (1150 years)
Whose eternal in those two ?

So renamed books =
Legions Triumphant becomes decline and fall
Decline and Fall becomes Eternal empire
Eternal Empire becomes Janissaries triumphant ?
Storm of sipahis ?

Only kidding guys - but i think im right
Anyone fancy an argument ?

Steve

That's 2 doors down on the left.

This is abuse

Where does the title of Immortal Fire come from? Is it a literary allusion that I am missing?

From the fire of Zoroastrian ... Major religion of the Persians Empires until the Sassanians.

I blame the marketing men

Honestly none of the names of the books are my fault I can safely say that all my suggestions were rejected, mainly on the grounds of political correctness.

I really liked "Bastion of the Faith", "Cross and Crescent" etc.

They all sound better than Rome 1 rome 2 Byzantine 1 Byzantine 2 etc

There is a little discussion to decide the names, JD request opinion to the "Freak group" , and after no reaching any agreement the name is decided . Similar procedure for the books covers.

As Hammy says, the political correctness finally wins.

I have to say that the most of names sounds good for my foreing ears, but not when are translated, here we used to hear a lot of titles and product names in English and all sounds similar for us.


David

hammy wrote:I really liked "Bastion of the Faith", "Cross and Crescent" etc.

I can quite honestly say that I didn't think Hammy was thinking "Cross and Crescent" when I heard his book names were disregarded for political reasons. Perhaps I have less faith in him than he deserves

Ian

Hi Switzer,

all the names came from my distorted mind, someone should bring the standard and my name came out the Hat ( or a rabbit , I don't remind )

so now you have a name or a guy to blame for that ;

if you search me to blame me I 'm in the Circus just inside the cage with the lions ;

Best Regards

thefrenchjester " FOG onTour even in Portmeirion "

Just look for No. 6

whitehorses wrote:Just look for No. 6

I thought it was n°8?

He's not a number, he's a free man

whitehorses wrote:He's not a number, he's a free man

Thanks for making me spit my coffee on my keyboard!

Whose side are you on?

That.....would be telling

hammy wrote:I blame the marketing men

Honestly none of the names of the books are my fault I can safely say that all my suggestions were rejected, mainly on the grounds of political correctness.

I really liked "Bastion of the Faith", "Cross and Crescent" etc.

And my "Riders on the Sand" and "The Book of Smiting" were both rejected in favour of something dull about
a history of birdwatching swifts and eagles in biblical times.

The Scots have no sense of humour, is all I can say

peterrjohnston wrote:And my "Riders on the Sand" and "The Book of Smiting" were both rejected in favour of something dull about
a history of birdwatching swifts and eagles in biblical times.

The Scots have no sense of humour, is all I can say

"The Book of Smiting" would have been a wonderful title.

Marc