Imperium

Friendship in politics is a fragile thing, prone to combust in the white heat of ambition. Alliances dissolve, loyalties are traded and promises are made to be broken. This Book at Bedtime is a compelling study in the art of politics. The players are the great men of their age – Crassus, Pompey, Julius Caesar – the events of their story have echoed down two thousand years.

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