The rebellion of Spartacus failed. Julius Caesar and Marcus Brutus return from the Roman colonies in Spain to challenge the powerful senators and become cons...

From Publishers WeeklyAfter what was in effect a preamble-Emperor: The Gates of Rome (2003)-Julius Caesar takes center stage in this second fast-moving, a...

401 BC e., Mesopotamia. Shahinshah Artaxerxes II, who had just ascended the throne of the largest state of the era, the Achaemenid power, conceived the murde...

Fulfilling the will of his father, the great Darius, Xerxes gathered a huge army and invaded Greece to crush Athens. And now he stands among the smoking ruin...

In the bosom of the abundant nature of the Apennine Peninsula, a powerful state is growing stronger. Its heart is Rome, a city in whose daily life glory and ...

He was born Temujin, the son of a khan, raised in a clan of hunters migrating across the rugged steppe. Temujin’s young life was shaped by a series of bru...

England, 1461, the height of the War of the Roses. After a crushing defeat at the Battle of Sandal Castle, the York army was practically scattered. The Lanca...

England, 1470. The Game of Thrones continues. The war for the crown has been going on for many years, but none of the rulers manages to stay on the throne fo...

He was born under unusual circumstances: some considered it a bad sign, while others predicted that death would be his faithful companion and he would become...

Temuchin, the second son of the Khan of the Wolf tribe, is only eleven, but his father died, the family was expelled by the tribe and seemed doomed to death ...