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"Winner of the 1973 National Book Award. In Augustus, the third of his great novels, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a[n] historical novel set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire, whose greatness was matched by his brutality. To tell the story, Williams also turned to a genre, the epistolary novel, that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in Butcher's Crossing...

In Harry Turtledove's work of historical fiction, Augustus Caesar assigns Roman politician Publius Quinctilius Varus three battle legions and presents him with orders to combat the united, yet barbaric Germanic forces in Rome's eastern frontier, Rhine. But, unbeknownst to Caesar and Varus, Prince Arminius of Cherusci, a Roman citizen and former soldier, has joined forces with the Germans in hopes of leading them to victory over Rome in the bloody...

"Julius Caesar is dead, assassinated on the senate floor, and the glory that is Rome has been torn in two. Octavian, Caesar's ambitious great-nephew and adopted son, vies with Marc Antony and Cleopatra for control of Caesar's legacy. As civil war rages from Rome to Alexandria, and vast armies and navies battle for supremacy, a secret conflict may shape the course of history. Juba, Numidian prince and adopted brother of Octavian, has embarked on a...