"Caesar - A Beginner's Guide" offers an amazing insight into the life and times of this influential all-rounder, depicting Caesar not only as man but also as a good tactitioner and leader. His story is one of ambition and intrigue, corruption and power, battles, bravery, brutality, sexual scandal and ultimate assassination. Antony Kamm's informative text: investigates Caesar's background and the times he lived in; explores the world of Republican Rome; introduces Caesar, the Politician, the General and the Dictator; demonstrates how Caesar's ambition and political intrigue brought him to supreme power, but also to assassination; and examines Caesar's influence both in his own time and in the world today. This title has an extremely large potential audience. Ancient history has a large following and so this should have a good market with general readers.
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A very well written piece, introducing the life of Julius Caesar to newcomers... Highly recommended for anyone not familliar with Roman history who wishes to learn more about the most famous Roman of all times -- www.roman-empire.net
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Antony Kamm was Director of Brockhampton Press in the 1960s and 70s. He is now a freelance writer and has written many books with Routledge, HarperCollins and Longman. He is a member of the Educational Writers Group.
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The Most Accessible but Substantive Introduction to Caesar,
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With my own web site on Julius Caesar, I'm always looking for ways to introduce others to this remarkable man to others without clogging them with arcane details or insulting their intelligence by portraying Caesar as an Asterix character. Any book about Julius Caesar is also a book about the times he lived in; you can't understand one without the other. Since the average non-specialist reader has trouble absorbing all the ins and outs of the late Roman Republic, it's a remarkable challenge to present a clear, cogent biography of Caesar within that historical context. Anthony Kamm's book splendidly manages this difficult feat and I applaud it. I read the book in an evening and I found he put no foot wrong in both portraying the necessary complexities of Caesar and his times, as well as making the story understandable and sharply focused. Kamm includes substantial quotations from men of the times which illuminate his subjects. The book is thoroughly researched and three-dimensional in its portrayal of the great general and dictator and his good and less attractive sides. Kamm's book races ahead as if you do not know the end to the story of this remarkable man. You end by wanting to learn even more. I highly recommend this book for beginner or Caesarophile. It is the best short introduction to his life I have read. Suzanne Cross, web author
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