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Sword of Rome: The Complete Campaigns

by Richard Foreman Book 1 in the The Dream of Rome series.

First published 2013

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This omnibus collects the five Sword of Rome novellas following the fictional centurion Lucius Oppius through Julius Caesar’s final campaigns. The sequence begins during the invasion of Britain in 55 BCE, moves to the encirclement at Alesia and then returns to Rome, where Oppius is forced into the arena while Caesar seeks renewed political office.

Rubicon and Pharsalus carry the soldier into civil war as Caesar and Pompey abandon negotiation. Oppius’s private loyalties and desire for revenge intersect with the decisions of Cicero, Mark Antony, Brutus and the rival commanders. Read together, the campaigns show the Republic’s external conquests feeding an internal military struggle in which professional soldiers can no longer separate service to Rome from loyalty to an individual general.

Historical Periods

Gallic Wars58–50 BCE Crossing of the Rubicon49 BCE Battle of Pharsalus48 BCE

Genres

Court & Political Fiction Historical Sagas Historical Thriller War Fiction

Historical people

Pompey106–48 BCE Julius Caesar101 BCE–45 BCE Marcus Junius Brutus86 BCE–43 BCE Mark Antony83–30 BCE Vercingetorixc. 82–46 BCE Cicero107 BCE–44 BCE

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