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Julius Caesar
The Rise of a General and the End of a Republic
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Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36899749
EAN: 9798191097176
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Zustellung: Di, 10.11.2026
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Beschreibung
Twenty-three stab wounds. One man. A Republic that would never recover. When Julius Caesar was struck down in the Roman Senate on the Ides of March, the men who killed him believed they were saving their Republic. What they could not undo was how he got there in the first place, and that story begins not with daggers in Rome, but with a fugitive teenager hiding from a dictator's death squads in the crowded slums of the Subura. This book traces Caesar's rise from that dangerous beginning through the decade that transformed him into the most formidable general Rome had ever produced. It follows a young man kidnapped by pirates who turned his own ransom into a display of arrogant confidence, a debt-ridden politician who gambled everything on a single election for Rome's highest religious office, and an ambitious governor who built an alliance with two of Rome's most powerful men in order to bypass a Senate determined to destroy him. Then comes Gaul. Over nine relentless years, Caesar's legions fought the migrating Helvetii, crossed swords with a German king who had carved out his own kingdom on Gallic soil, nearly lost everything in the chaos of battle along the Sabis River, and built an engineering marvel across the Rhine simply to prove that no river, no sea, and no enemy stood beyond Rome's reach. Twice his legions crossed into Britain, an island most Romans regarded as the edge of the known world. And in the end, Caesar faced his most dangerous opponent yet, a Gallic leader named Vercingetorix who came closer than anyone before him to uniting an entire people against Rome, in a final confrontation at Alesia that would decide the fate of Gaul itself. This is a story about how ambition, debt, and an unshakable belief in one's own destiny can reshape the world, and about what that reshaping costs the people caught in its path. Readers will come away understanding not just what Caesar accomplished, but why a Senate that once feared him could not, in the end, live with what he had become. It is a story of brilliant strategy and brutal consequence in equal measure, one that explains how a single man's decade of conquest set an ancient republic on an irreversible path toward empire. For readers drawn to the history of ancient Rome, the military campaigns that shaped Western Europe, or the question of how far one person's ambition can carry them before it becomes impossible to stop, this book offers a faithful, carefully researched journey through the years that made Julius Caesar the figure history has never stopped arguing about.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Ally Cobs
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 90