"Bellum Cantabricum" (Finalist work for the 2020 Edhasa Historical Narratives Award), by José Manuel Aparicio.

This historical novel narrates an authentic epic war, which had as its main characters the last free pre-Roman Hispanic peoples, who were subjugated “manu militari,” and ....

with violence and cruelty, by the SPQR, commanded by the Emperor César Augustus. He used very immoral subterfuge, taking advantage of the plundering of the Cantabrians, especially the Vadinians, the Astures, and more so the Cismontans, who were later referred to as Augustans.  These battles were carried out in the grain fields of the Vacceans, the Turmogos and the Autrigones.

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