Author: Henry Smith Williams
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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The later Roman empire
Author: Henry Smith Williams
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Publisher:
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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The Historians' History of the World: The later Roman empire
Author: Henry Smith Williams
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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Publisher:
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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The Historians' History of the World
Author: Henry Smith Williams
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
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Publisher:
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
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Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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The Century-Cyclopedia of Names
Author: Smith
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
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Languages : en
Pages : 1106
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A History of the World on a New and Systematic Plan
Author: Henry White
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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A Struggle for Rome (Complete)
Author: Felix Dahn
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465575235
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1515
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Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465575235
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1515
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A Struggle for Rome
Author: Felix Dahn
Publisher: Endymion Press
ISBN: 1531293352
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 827
Book Description
Felix Dahn was a nineteenth century German Professor of Jurisprudence, as well as a historian, novelist and poet, who was greatly admired by his academic contemporaries for his grasp of the historical detail of the periods about which he wrote. He has been well served by this magisterial translation, which at last makes this astonishingly rich novel available to the modern English reader. This is a story - perhaps the story - of the clash between two great civilizations of the sixth century of the Common Era, when the Roman Empire had crumbled into dust; the struggle for Rome, and for Italy, between the Eastern Roman Empire of Byzantium, ruled by Justinian, and the Gothic warrior tribes who had captured Italy under their legendary king Theodoric. We see this epoch through the eyes of different personalities at the centre of these events which shook the world as they knew it; most are historical figures and some are imaginary but typical; Justinian and his beautiful and scheming wife, Theodora; the great commander Belisarius, immortalised by Robert Graves; Totila and Teias, two Gothic kings, one as bold and bright as the sun and the other as black as night; and Cethegus, the Prefect of Rome and the last of the Romans, whose cold and calculating nature runs through the book like a steel thread, who will stop at nothing to regain the ancient city, and who, in the end, fails and redeems his many crimes with a hero's death. Firmly based on historical fact and contemporary sources, A Struggle for Rome is one of the great historical novels of the world.
Publisher: Endymion Press
ISBN: 1531293352
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 827
Book Description
Felix Dahn was a nineteenth century German Professor of Jurisprudence, as well as a historian, novelist and poet, who was greatly admired by his academic contemporaries for his grasp of the historical detail of the periods about which he wrote. He has been well served by this magisterial translation, which at last makes this astonishingly rich novel available to the modern English reader. This is a story - perhaps the story - of the clash between two great civilizations of the sixth century of the Common Era, when the Roman Empire had crumbled into dust; the struggle for Rome, and for Italy, between the Eastern Roman Empire of Byzantium, ruled by Justinian, and the Gothic warrior tribes who had captured Italy under their legendary king Theodoric. We see this epoch through the eyes of different personalities at the centre of these events which shook the world as they knew it; most are historical figures and some are imaginary but typical; Justinian and his beautiful and scheming wife, Theodora; the great commander Belisarius, immortalised by Robert Graves; Totila and Teias, two Gothic kings, one as bold and bright as the sun and the other as black as night; and Cethegus, the Prefect of Rome and the last of the Romans, whose cold and calculating nature runs through the book like a steel thread, who will stop at nothing to regain the ancient city, and who, in the end, fails and redeems his many crimes with a hero's death. Firmly based on historical fact and contemporary sources, A Struggle for Rome is one of the great historical novels of the world.
The Century Cyclopedia of Names
Author: Benjamin Eli Smith
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1101
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1101
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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
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