The Barbarian/Casca No 5 [Paperback]

Barry Sadler (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Ace Books (June 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0441093485
• ISBN-13: 978-0441093489
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,522,174 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best Casca stories, October 25, 2001

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Casca Watcher (Bristol United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Barbarian/Casca No 5 (Paperback)

Ignore the review below, it bears no relation to the book. This story is not about Mongols - see #22: The Mongol, - Huns or anyone else mentioned in that erroneous review. This book takes place between the years 163AD and 250AD and is based largely at a hold in Scandinavia, amongst a fledgling Viking community. Casca meets and falls in love with a beautiful woman, but to win her he must fight her evil father.

There is plenty of good action here and charts the love between the two main characters as well as the normal action and adventure usually found in Barry Sadler novels.

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best, June 3, 2005

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Tony Roberts (Bristol, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Barbarian/Casca No 5 (Paperback)

This book covers Casca's life in a Scandinavian Viking hold and his growing love for the daughter of the nasty warlord there. Casca's friendship with the irreverent Glam is a strong point too and Glam helps Casca escape from prison and wreak revenge on the Warlord in typical Sadler style.

The love story in this book makes it one of the superior Sadler novels without making it slushy. Its typical no-nonsense straight-forward stuff and flows along easily enough. What the bottom review was talking about I have no idea but it isn't about this particular book, that's for sure.

For the world of Casca visit www.casca.net

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Of Germanic and Mongol Tribes against Imperial Rome, June 15, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Barbarian/Casca No 5 (Paperback)

Casca is back, and fighting for a weak, inbred, and failing Roman Empire. After Christianity became Roman Catholicism, Casca's pagan ways are now illegal. Like Christians of earlier times, pagans are enslaved. By doing a repeat of his win in the arena of the now decrepid gladiators, he goes - once again - from slavery to the legion. As he passes from one captor to another, Casca experiences Romans, Germans, and Mongols during a pivotal time in history. An easy, but good read.