A classic work that's held up with the passing of time. The title might superficially be taken to refer to Druss the Legend, the aged warrior hero who is called to help fight a seemingly unwinnable battle. But I think a better and a truer reading of it would be that it refers to what that mighty, awful battle makes of all the men (and women) swept up in it - those who live and those who die. This is the account of a legend being forged, in all its true dreadful carnage and its own absolute sense of an honor unyielding - though not always unforgiving. Simply put, this is a book one is glad to have read.