Swords of the Republic: From the Rubicon to the Ides

You think you know a story, but you only know how it ends. To get to the heart of it, you have to walk in the shoes of the towering figures of the era.Rome stands at the edge of civil war. Julius Caesar is finishing his conquest of Gaul, and refuses to yield his command. Many foes stand in his way: Pompey the Great, defender of the Republic; Vercingetorix, king of the Gallic northern tribes and a fractious Senate vying to stop him. Between them lies the fate of the ancient world, with consequences that will cascade down the generations.From the markets of the Subura to the blood-soaked fields of Gaul and Greece, Swords of the Republic follows the men and women who lived the last days of the Republic: Caesar, Pompey, Antony, Cleopatra, Cicero, Cato, Calpurnia and many of the other figures whose actions and beliefs rippled down the generations to today.History will remember the victors. This is a novel that takes you inside the heads of those who wagered everything as the Republic fell.