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The family from which I am, derived is not an ignoble one, but hath descended all along from the priests; and as nobility among several people is of a different origin, so with us to be of the sacerdotal dignity, is an indication of the splendor of a family. Now, I am not only, sprung from a sacerdotal family in general, but from the first of the twenty-four 1 courses; and as among us there is not only, a considerable difference, between one family...
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Publisher
Doubleday
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[2015?]
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xxvi, 482 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivated with RubiconDynastyI, Claudius, with five wonderfully vivid (and in three cases, thoroughly depraved) emperors—Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero—featured, along with numerous fascinating secondary characters. Intrigue, murder, naked ambition and treachery, greed, gluttony, lust, incest, pageantry, decadence—the tale of these five...
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"On July 10, 1943, the largest amphibious invasion ever mounted took place, larger even than the Normandy invasion eleven months later: 160,000 American, British, and Canadian troops came ashore or were parachuted onto Sicily, signaling the start of the campaign to defeat Nazi Germany on European soil. Operation HUSKY, as it was known, was enormously complex, involving dramatic battles on land, in the air, and at sea. Yet, despite its drama and its...
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