Adrian Goldsworthy. Julius Caesar / Adrian Goldsworthy; [transl. from English K. Savelyeva]. - M.: Eksmo, 2007. - 672 p.: ill.Gai Julius Caesar - the most famous Roman, whose name everyone knows - has been the hero of countless books for several centuries, and after the advent of cinema - and films. He is rightfully considered one of the greatest commanders of all time, as well as a wise and far-sighted politician who laid the foundations of the Roman Empire, which conquered almost the entire world known to the people of Antiquity. A book by the modern British historian Adrian Goldsworthy, who, in addition to a deep knowledge of the subject, has an undoubted literary gift, will allow the reader to immerse himself in the complex and contradictory world of Roman political life in the 1st century. BC, understand the background of the events that changed the world, as well as the true motives of the actions of such political figures as Cicero, Pompey the Great, Crassus and Cato. The author also paid attention to Caesar’s numerous love affairs, as well as rumors discrediting his reputation and their impact on the political career of the future dictator. Adrian Goldsworthy devoted more than half of the book to Caesar’s military campaigns, described vividly and emotionally, with interesting details. Here is a fascinating story about brutal battles with fierce shaggy Gauls, warlike half-naked Germans and wild Britons painted in blue paint, as well as all the vicissitudes of the terrible civil war, when the Romans fought with the Romans on the bloody battlefields. This book is not only a biography of Caesar himself, but and, in fact, a biography of an entire era when the foundations of the world in which we live today were laid.