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Alea Iacta Est: Caesar's Fateful Gamble for Rome
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Publisher: Robert Walker
Published: May 20 2025
Pages: 468
Weight: 1.18
Height: 1.04 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ONE MAN'S GAMBLE. A REPUBLIC'S END.
The Senate has given its greatest general, Gaius Julius Caesar, an ultimatum: surrender his legions and face his political enemies, or cross the Rubicon and plunge the known world into a brutal civil war .
His answer will shatter a five-hundred-year-old republic.
Alea Iacta Est is a relentless saga of ambition, betrayal, and the brutal reckoning of a civilization rotting from within. This epic sweeps you from the back-alley brawls of a decaying Rome to the colossal, world-ending clash of armies at Pharsalus, Thapsus, and Munda .
Witness the titans who tore the world apart: the revolutionary genius of Caesar, the tragic pride of Pompey, the fiery, self-destructive passion of Antony, and the chilling, meticulous ambition of Octavian, the boy who would become Augustus .
This is the story of how a republic is murdered and an empire is born-not in the hallowed halls of the Senate, but in the blood-soaked mud of the battlefield, the cold calculations of propaganda, and the private chambers where ruthless men gamble everything for the right to rule.
The die is cast.
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