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pp. xx [2] 323, course of Western history.” (Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University and author of THE SAVIOR GENERALS and CARNAGE AND CULTURE) “This stupendous book has all the pace and action of a top-quality thrillermurder, lust, betrayal and high politicsyet it’s all true, and comes from the pen of the world’s senior academic expert in the field. A lifetime’s study of the ancient sources has gone into Barry Strauss’s utterly gripping account of the day that the course of human history radically changed. Superbly researched, wittily written, but above all driven by a truly exciting narrative that never lets up, this is history-writing at its best. Our understanding of what happened on the Ides of March and its chaotic, bloody aftermath is forever changed, and this will be the standard work for decades to come.”