title: Warriors: Exceptional Tales from the Battlefield
author:  Sir Max Hastings 
description: Max Hastings is the author of twenty-six books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes both for journalism and his books, of which the most recent are All Hell Let Loose, Catastrophe and The Secret War, best-sellers translated around the world. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London and was knighted in 2002. He has two grown-up children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife Penny in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically.
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  Clay Warrior Stories
  
  
  Box Set #2
  
  
  
  
  
  Books #4, #5 & #6
  
  
  
  
  
  [Reluctant Siege](part0000_split_002.html#_Toc35938711)
  
  
  [Brutal Diplomacy](part0000_split_012.html#_Toc35938712)
  
  
  [Fortune Reigns](part0000_split_024.html#_Toc35938713)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  By: J. Clifton Slater
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ###  Reluctant Siege
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Clay Warrior Stories
  
  
  Book #4
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Reluctant Siege is a work of fiction. While some characters are historical
  figures, the majority are fictional. Any resemblance to persons living or dead
  is purely coincidental.
  
  
  The story takes place in late 265 B.C. to early 264 B.C. when Rome was a
  Republic and before the Imperial Roman Empire conquered the world. While I
  have attempted to stay true to the era, I am not a historian. If you are a
  true aficionado of the times, I apologize in advance.
  
  
  I’d like to thank my editor Hollis