I am a 53 year old retired Infantry Marine, born and raised in Texas and currently living on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. I have been writing since my first novel, written at the age of 10, when my friends and yours truly fought off the Soviet hordes, who just happened to pick my block to launch their invasion. That was their big mistake.

But like a lot of dreams, it got sidetracked until recently, when I decided to focus my passion on an era and subject that interested me a great deal. Like my characters in Ancient Rome, I have served as the pointy tip of the spear of our nation's policy, and it is with this perspective that I tell the story of Titus Pullus and his friends.

This is my first published novel, and is the first in a completed series that covers the career of Titus Pullus.

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• The Day Gaul Died on Dec. 18, 2012
  
  A great story told from a different viewpoint I must admit that, as the author of Marching With Caesar-Conquest of Gaul, which tells essentially the same story as Mr. Mizell's but from the more common viewpoint of the Roman side, I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked this up. But I decided to give it a go since I am, before anything else, a huge fan of this genre. I'm glad I did, and being completely honest, I wish Mr. Mizell had written his work before mine. Although I'm more a "grunt's-eye view" storyteller myself, what Mr. Mizell offers is a fresh and unique perspective of a story that has been told many, many times, but always from the perspective of the winner. Most importantly, I got a sense of what it might have FELT like to be on the other side, watching the relentless, remorseless machines that were the Legions of Rome, grinding and crushing everything and everyone in their path. By focusing his story on Vercassivellaunos, Mr. Mizell puts us close enough to the inner workings and mindset of Vercingetorix, but allows for a more detached viewpoint as the Arverni leader comes perilously close to accomplishing what no other Gallic tribe had been able to do in the previous five years, defeat Caesar and his Legions. No one else was able to unite as many of the tribes, and he was the only one who correctly determined that a war of attrition and a strategic attack of the food supplying the men in Caesar's army was the only way to achieve victory. What Mr. Mizell does is give us a glimpse into how Vercingetorix might have actually accomplished this, through threats, blackmail, flattery and bribery. As I said, while I personally like a bit more "blood and guts", Mr. Mizell is able to focus on the human aspect of what was a titanic struggle and make it so interesting, and so real that I didn't miss it. All in all, I think this is a great work, especially for his first book, and I think that anyone who is a true student of Caesar, the Legions, or this time period in Roman history should make this required reading to get a glimpse into the other side of war, and the story of The Day Gaul Died.
  
• The Day Gaul Died on Dec. 18, 2012
  
  A great story told from a different viewpoint I must admit that, as the author of Marching With Caesar-Conquest of Gaul, which tells essentially the same story as Mr. Mizell's but from the more common viewpoint of the Roman side, I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked this up. But I decided to give it a go since I am, before anything else, a huge fan of this genre. I'm glad I did, and being completely honest, I wish Mr. Mizell had written his work before mine. Although I'm more a "grunt's-eye view" storyteller myself, what Mr. Mizell offers is a fresh and unique perspective of a story that has been told many, many times, but always from the perspective of the winner. Most importantly, I got a sense of what it might have FELT like to be on the other side, watching the relentless, remorseless machines that were the Legions of Rome, grinding and crushing everything and everyone in their path. By focusing his story on Vercassivellaunos, Mr. Mizell puts us close enough to the inner workings and mindset of Vercingetorix, but allows for a more detached viewpoint as the Arverni leader comes perilously close to accomplishing what no other Gallic tribe had been able to do in the previous five years, defeat Caesar and his Legions. No one else was able to unite as many of the tribes, and he was the only one who correctly determined that a war of attrition and a strategic attack of the food supplying the men in Caesar's army was the only way to achieve victory. What Mr. Mizell does is give us a glimpse into how Vercingetorix might have actually accomplished this, through threats, blackmail, flattery and bribery. As I said, while I personally like a bit more "blood and guts", Mr. Mizell is able to focus on the human aspect of what was a titanic struggle and make it so interesting, and so real that I didn't miss it. All in all, I think this is a great work, especially for his first book, and I think that anyone who is a true student of Caesar, the Legions, or this time period in Roman history should make this required reading to get a glimpse into the other side of war, and the story of The Day Gaul Died.
  
• The Day Gaul Died on Dec. 18, 2012
  
  A great story told from a different viewpoint I must admit that, as the author of Marching With Caesar-Conquest of Gaul, which tells essentially the same story as Mr. Mizell's but from the more common viewpoint of the Roman side, I wasn't sure what to expect when I picked this up. But I decided to give it a go since I am, before anything else, a huge fan of this genre. I'm glad I did, and being completely honest, I wish Mr. Mizell had written his work before mine. Although I'm more a "grunt's-eye view" storyteller myself, what Mr. Mizell offers is a fresh and unique perspective of a story that has been told many, many times, but always from the perspective of the winner. Most importantly, I got a sense of what it might have FELT like to be on the other side, watching the relentless, remorseless machines that were the Legions of Rome, grinding and crushing everything and everyone in their path. By focusing his story on Vercassivellaunos, Mr. Mizell puts us close enough to the inner workings and mindset of Vercingetorix, but allows for a more detached viewpoint as the Arverni leader comes perilously close to accomplishing what no other Gallic tribe had been able to do in the previous five years, defeat Caesar and his Legions. No one else was able to unite as many of the tribes, and he was the only one who correctly determined that a war of attrition and a strategic attack of the food supplying the men in Caesar's army was the only way to achieve victory. What Mr. Mizell does is give us a glimpse into how Vercingetorix might have actually accomplished this, through threats, blackmail, flattery and bribery. As I said, while I personally like a bit more "blood and guts", Mr. Mizell is able to focus on the human aspect of what was a titanic struggle and make it so interesting, and so real that I didn't miss it. All in all, I think this is a great work, especially for his first book, and I think that anyone who is a true student of Caesar, the Legions, or this time period in Roman history should make this required reading to get a glimpse into the other side of war, and the story of The Day Gaul Died.