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  • The Inquest

    A Novel of the Greatest Story Never Told

    In the time of Vespasian, just after Rome has crushed the Jewish Revolt, Julius Varro, a Roman Questor (an investigating magistrate )is commissioned to investigate the story that a Jew rose from the dead after being crucified in Jerusalem. Because the fast-growing Nazarene sect founded by the martyr's followers is becoming a threat to the stability of the region, there is much riding on debunking ... Read more

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  • Caligula

    The Mad Emperor of Rome

    Explore all of the murder, madness and mayhem in Ancient Rome during the reign of the mad emperor, Caligula.In this book about Rome’s most infamous emperor, expert author, Stephen Dando-Collins’ chronicles all the palace intrigues and murders that led to Caligula becoming emperor, and details the horrors of his manic reign and the murderous consequences brought about at the hand of his sister ... Read more

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  • Taking Hawaii

    How Thirteen Honolulu Businessmen Overthrew the Queen of Hawaii in 1893, With a Bluff

    The true story of a queen deposed, a five-year police state, an attempted counter-coup, and the end of an independent nation.On a January afternoon in 1893, men hunkered down behind sandbagged emplacements in the streets of Honolulu, with rifles, machine guns, and cannon ready to open fire. Troops and police loyal to the queen of the sovereign nation of Hawaii faced off against a small number of ... Read more

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  • Cyrus The Great

    Cyrus the Great was a brilliant general who founded the Persian Empire, greatest empire of its day. He was also the king who freed the Jews from exile at Babylon and allowed them to return to Jerusalem, with the Bible describing him as the only non Jew "anointed by god." Cyrus influenced the US Bill of Rights, and is the biblical figure to whom US President Donald Trump has been favorably compared ... Read more

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  • Mark Antony's Heroes

    How the Third Gallica Legion Saved an Apostle and Created an Emperor

    This fourth book in Dando-Collins’s definitive history of Rome’s legions tells the story of Rome’s 3rd Gallica Legion, which put Vespasian on the throne and saved the life of the Christian apostle Paul. Named for their leader, Mark Antony, these common Roman soldiers, through their gallantry on the battlefield, reshaped the Roman Empire and aided the spread of Christianity throughout Europe. ... Read more

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  • Rise of an Empire

    How One Man United Greece to Defeat Xerxes's Persians

    The true story behind the events in 300: Rise of an Empire, the sequel to Zack Snyder's 300The action-filled movie 300 focused on Ancient Greece's epic battle of Thermopylae, in which King Leonidas led 300 Spartans into battle against Xerxes and his million-strong Persian forces. In the sequel, 300: Rise of an Empire, the action moves to the sea, covering ten years starting with the Battle of ... Read more

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  • The Great Fire of Rome

    The Fall of the Emperor Nero and His City

    The never-before-told story of Rome's famous fire that destroyed the world's greatest city and its most notorious emperor: Nero.In A.D. sixty-four, on the night of July nineteen, a fire began beneath the stands of Rome's great stadium that spread to engulf much of Rome. From this calamity, one of the ancient world's most devastating events, legends grew—that Nero was responsible for the fire and ... Read more

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  • Tycoon's War

    How Cornelius Vanderbilt Invaded a Country to Overthrow America's Most Famous Military Adventurer

    The author of Legions of Rome and Cyrus the Great recounts how Cornelius Vanderbilt fought a war in Central America to protect his business.When he died in 1877, Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the Vanderbilt dynasty, was wealthier than the U.S. Treasury. But he had nearly lost his fortune in 1856, when William Walker, a young rogue from Nashville, set out to conquer Central America and, in the ... Read more

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  • Caesar Versus Pompey

    Determining Rome’s Greatest General, Statesman & Nation-Builder

    Who was Rome’s greatest general, statesman, and nation-builder: Caesar or Pompey?Few people have had as many words written about them down through the centuries as Julius Caesar—the brilliant general who made Queen Cleopatra of Egypt his mistress. He has captured the imagination of playwrights, historians, soldiers and emperors.Little has been written about his ally, son-in-law, and eventual enemy ... Read more

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  • Nero's Killing Machine

    The True Story of Rome's Remarkable 14th Legion

    The 14th Gemina Martia Victrix Legion was the most celebrated unit of the early Roman Empire–a force that had been wiped out under Julius Caesar, reformed, and almost wiped out again. After participating in the a.d. 43 invasion of Britain, the 14th Legion achieved its greatest glory when it put down the famous rebellion of the Britons under Boudicca. Numbering less than 10,000 men, the disciplined ... Read more

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  • The Ides

    Caesar's Murder and the War for Rome

    Unraveling the many mysteries surrounding the murder of Julius CaesarThe assassination of Julius Caesar is one of the most notorious murders in history. Two thousand years after it occurred, many compelling questions remain about his death: Was Brutus the hero and Caesar the villain? Did Caesar bring death on himself by planning to make himself king of Rome? Was Mark Antony aware of the plot, and ... Read more

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  • Caesar's Legion

    The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar's Elite Tenth Legion and the Armies of Rome

    "A unique and splendidly researched story, following the trials and triumphs of Julius Caesar's Legio X-arguably the most famous legion of its day-from its activation to the slogging battle of Munda and from Thapsus, Caesar's tactical masterpiece, to the grim siege of the Jewish fortress of Masada. More than a mere unit account, it incorporates the history of Rome and the Roman army at the height ... Read more

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