R. W. Peake

Caesar Ascending-The Ganges (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In the fifth book in the bestselling alternate history series, Caesar Ascending-The Ganges, with his treaty solidified with the Pandya Kingdom of southern India, Julius Caesar sets his sights on the next step of his quest to supplant the only name who precedes his as the greatest general in history, the Macedonian King Alexander. By reaching the sacred Ganges and taking the fabled city of Palibothra in the process, Caesar will have succeeded where Alexander could not. To do this, he must use every bit of his skill, not just in waging war but in statecraft, beginning with the other great kingdom of southern India, the Chola, the bitter rival of young King Nedunj and his Pandya, led by King Karikala.

After negotiating a safe passage through the Chola Kingdom, Karikala's son Crown Prince Divakar is provoked into initiating battle with Caesar's 10th Legion as they are marching into Cholan territory as part of the negotiated agreement. Using young King Nedunj's knowledge of Divakar's impetuosity, when the Crown Prince launches an unprovoked attack on the most veteran army in the known world, he is killed by the powerful but volatile substance naphtha, used by Rome to combat the ancient world's most potent superweapon, the armored elephants of the Indian kingdoms. The ramifications of his grisly demise will reverberate, with a king driven mad with grief focusing his blame and hatred on a giant Roman Centurion, blaming Titus Pullus for the death of his son.

After many errors, Caesar must decide between returning the thousand miles back to Pandya as the first leg of what will an arduous journey back to Rome or risk another mutiny by pressing forward. Throughout this extraordinary campaign, Caesar has been able to rely on Titus Pullus and his Equestrians, but that loyalty will be tested as never before if Caesar tries to lead his army beyond the Ganges.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: R.W. Peake
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781941226469
• Artikelnr.: 74385542

Autorenporträt

R.W. Peake wrote his first novel when he was 10.

He published his first novel when he was 50.

Obviously, a lot happened in between, including a career as a "grunt" in the Marine Corps, another career as a software executive, a stint as a semi-professional cyclist, and becoming a dad.

But, through it all, there was one constant: his fascination with history, which led him back to school in his 30s to earn a degree in History from the Honors College at the University of Houston.

One morning years later, R.W. was listening to Caesar's Commentaries while he was on his morning commute to a job he hated. A specific passage about Caesar's men digging a 17 mile ditch between Lake Geneva and the Jura Mountains suddenly jumped out at him.

He was reminded of his own first job at 13 digging a ditch in Hardin, Texas. For the rest of the drive that morning, he daydreamed about what life must have been like not for the Caesars of the world, but for the everyday people who were doing the fighting and dying for Rome, and the idea for Marching with Caesar was born.

Not too long after that, he quit that job, moved into a trailer halfway across the country, and devoted the next four years to researching and writing the first installments of Marching with Caesar.

Some of his research methods-like hiking several miles around Big Bend National Park in the heat of summer wearing a suit of chainmail and carrying a sword so he would know what it felt like to be a Roman legionary-were a bit unconventional and made his friends and family question his sanity.

But such was his commitment to bringing these stories to life for his readers with as much detail and accuracy as possible.

Even as his catalog continues to grow, he still brings that passion to every story he tells.

He has moved out of the trailer, but he still lives on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington with his Yellow Lab, Titus Pomponius Pullus and his rescue dog, Peach.