Caesar
Subtitle: A Novel
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: December 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 664
ISBN-13: 9780688093723
Subjects: Historical fiction; Modern fiction; Mccullough, Colleen - Prose & Criticism; Fiction - Historical; Fiction; Rome; Republic, 265-30 B.C; Historical - General; Caesar, Julius; Generals; History; Republic, 265-30 B.C.
First sentence: The orders were that while Caesar and the major part of his army were in Britannia, none but the most urgent communications were to be sent to him; even directives from the Senate had to wait in Portus Itius on the Gallic mainland until Caesar returned from his second expedition to the island at the western end of the world, a place almost as mysterious as Serica.