Invasion of Parthia Quotes

“Underlying it, as always, was what to the human ear sounded like one keening moan, as if the voices of man and beast were somehow one large chorus, where every victim was singing their own part. It was the kind of sound that, once a man heard it, he would never forget, and it would haunt his dreams for the rest of his life,”
― R.W. Peake, Invasion of Parthia

“He had seen the moment he reached the top that Caesar, as usual, had been correct; arrayed before him on the opposite side of the ridge were the glowing coals of what he was sure was more than a thousand fires, stretched out south and along the base of the slope, looking as if a giant had carelessly scattered a handful of rubies on the ground.”
― R.W. Peake, Invasion of Parthia