Julius Caesar

10 best books like Julius Caesar (Philip Freeman): Water Shall Refuse Them, Alexander the Great, The Twelve Caesars, Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician, Napoleon: A Life, Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West, Augustus: First Emperor of Rome, Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580, The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy, Aşkımız Eski Bir Roman

Water Shall Refuse Them

Author	Lucie McKnight Hardy
ISBN	1911585568

The heatwave of 1976. Following the accidental drowning of her sister, sixteen-year-old Nif and her family move to a small village on the Welsh borders to escape their grief. But rural seclusion doesn't bring any relief. As her family unravels, Nif begins to put together her own form of witchcraft -...

Alexander the Great

Author	Robin Lane Fox
ISBN	0141020768

From award-winning historian Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great searches through the mass of conflicting evidence and legend to focus on Alexander as a man of his own time.

Tough, resolute, fearless, Alexander was a born warrior and ruler of passionate ambition who understood the intense...

The Twelve Caesars

Author	Suetonius
ISBN	0140449213

As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian, Suetonius gained access to the imperial archives and used them (along with eye-witness accounts) to produce one of the most colorful biographical works in history. The Twelve Caesars chronicles the public careers and private lives of the men who wielded...

Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician

Author

Anthony Everitt

“All ages of the world have not produced a greater statesman and philosopher combined.”
—John Adams

He squared off against Caesar and was friends with young Brutus. He advised the legendary Pompey on his somewhat botched transition from military hero to politician. He lambasted...

Napoleon: A Life

Author	Andrew Roberts
ISBN	0670025321

The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author of The Storm of War—winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoleon  

Austerlitz, Borodino, Waterloo: his battles are among the greatest...

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

Author	Tom Holland
ISBN	0385513119

In 480 B.C., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory—rapid, spectacular victory—had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East,...

Augustus: First Emperor of Rome

Author	Adrian Goldsworthy
ISBN	0300178727

The dramatic story of Rome’s first emperor, who plunged into Rome’s violent power struggles at the age of nineteen, proceeded to destroy all rivals, and more than anyone else created the Roman Empire
 
Caesar Augustus’ story, one of the most riveting in Western history, is filled with...

Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580

Author	Roger Crowley
ISBN	0571232302

Cervantes, of the "Don Quixote" fame, was in one of these battles. He was a 24-year-old volunteer.

Now I know that hundreds of years ago the Mediterranean Sea and its surrounding land areas were considered the center of the world and were a battleground for two great conflicting forces: the...

The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy

Author	Adrienne Mayor
ISBN	0691126836

Machiavelli praised his military genius. European royalty sought out his secret elixir against poison. His life inspired Mozart's first opera, while for centuries poets and playwrights recited bloody, romantic tales of his victories, defeats, intrigues, concubines, and mysterious death....

Aşkımız Eski Bir Roman

Author	Ahmet Ümit
ISBN	9750845552

İstanbul’da bir kanun adamı, sokaklarda bir suç bilgesi. Başkomser Nevzat, karmaşık cinayetleri çözerken insan ruhunun derinliklerinde gezinmeye devam ediyor...

Edebiyat bazen çok tehlikeli olabilir. Anna Karenina, Madam Bovary, Esmeralda ve daha birçok kadın roman...

Lenin the Dictator

Author

Victor Sebestyen

Shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography Victor Sebestyen's intimate biography is the first major work in English for nearly two decades on one of the most significant figures of the twentieth century. In Russia to this day Lenin inspires adulation. Everywhere, he...

Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor

Author	Anthony Everitt
ISBN	1400061288

He found Rome made of clay and left it made of marble. As Rome’s first emperor, Augustus transformed the unruly Republic into the greatest empire the world had ever seen. His consolidation and expansion of Roman power two thousand years ago laid the foundations, for all of Western history to follow....