The death of Caesar : the story of history's most famous assassination

Summary: Thanks to William Shakespeare, the death of Julius Caesar is the most famous assassination in history. But what actually happened on March 15, 44 BC is even more gripping than the play. Strauss shows Caesar's assassination was a carefully planned paramilitary operation, put together by disaffected officers and designed with precision. The assassins rallied support among the common people, but they underestimated Caesar's soldiers, who flooded Rome. The assassins were vanquished; their beloved Republic became the Roman Empire.

Record details

ISBN: 9781451668827
ISBN: 1451668791
ISBN: 9781451668797
Physical Description: xx, 323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-308) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Return to Rome. Riding with Caesar ; The best men ; Decision in a villa ; Caesar's last triumph -- Blood on the stones. The birth of a plot ; Wanted -- assassins ; Caesar leaves home ; Murder ; A republic in the balance ; A funeral to remember -- The road back. The struggle for Italy ; Vengeance ; Augustus.