The Death of Caesar: The Story of History's Most Famous Assassination

by Barry S. Strauss

Book Overview

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 Shakespeare's play. In this thrilling new book, Barry Strauss tells the real story. Shakespeare shows Caesar's assassination to be an amateur and idealistic affair. The real killing, however, was a carefully planned paramilitary operation, a generals' plot, put together by Caesar's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451668791
• ISBN13: 9781451668797
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.0"