title: Death of a Legend (Horseclans)
author: Robert Adams
description: Paperback w/ light edgewear, small scraped area, lightly tanning pages, bookstore stamp on flyleaf, NAL First Printing, November, 1981, full print line 1-9. 185 pages by Robert Adams.
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  Trumpets of War
  
  
  
  
  
  The Horseclans
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Book 16
  
  
  ### Robert Adams
  
  
  
  
  
  Content
  
  
  Prologue
  
  
  Chapter I
  
  
  Chapter II
  
  
  Chapter III
  
  
  Chapter IV
  
  
  Chapter V
  
  
  Chapter VI
  
  
  Chapter VII
  
  
  Chapter VIII
  
  
  Chapter IX
  
  
  Chapter X
  
  
  Epilogue
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Prologue
  
  
  At the head of a force numbering five hundreds of thousands, the largest host
  ever seen upon this land in all memory, Zastros, High King of the Southern
  Ehleenoee, had invaded theKingdomofKaraleenos , to his immediate north. But
  despite his vast force—partially, actually, because of that force's very
  vastness and consequent difficulty to keep always under firm, central control
  and keep supplied—his advance had not been either easy or inexpensive. What
  with green crops and forage burned where they had stood, most sources of water
  poisoned or foully polluted before him, while hit-and-run partisans nibbled at
  his
  
  
  flanks by both night and day, he soon was losing as many men to desertion as
  he was losi