Marching With Caesar: Conquest of Gaul - Softcover

Peake, R. W.

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9780985703004: Marching With Caesar: Conquest of Gaul

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ISBN 10: 0985703008 ISBN 13: 9780985703004

Publisher: R.W. Peake, 2012

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Marching With Caesar�-Conquest of Gaul, the first book in the bestselling Marching With Caesar� series, is a first-person narrative, written in the form of a memoir as dictated to a scribe of Titus Pullus, Legionary, Optio, First Spear Centurion of Caesar's 6th and 10th Legion. The memoir is written three years after his retirement as Camp Prefect, when Titus is 61 years old. Titus, along with his boyhood friend Vibius Domitius, joins the 10th Legion in the draft of 61 BC, when Gaius Julius Caesar is the governor of Spain. Titus and Vibius are assigned to a tent group, with seven other men who will become their closest friends during their times in the legion. Titus, Vibius and their comrades endure the harsh training regimen that made the legions the most feared military force in the ancient world. The 10th Legion is blooded in a series of actions in Spain, led by Caesar in a campaign that was the true beginning of one of the most brilliant military careers in history. Three years after joining the legions, the 10th is called on again, this time to be part of the subjugation of Gaul, one of the greatest feats of arms in any period of history. During the subsequent campaigns, the 10th cements its reputation as Caesar's most favored and trusted legion, and is involved in most of the major actions during this period. This first book of a completed series closes with Caesar crossing the Rubicon, and the 10th preparing to march to war, this time against fellow Romans.

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About the Author:

I am a 54 year old retired Infantry Marine, born and raised in Texas and currently living on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. I have been writing since my first novel, written at the age of 10, when my friends and yours truly fought off the Soviet hordes, who just happened to pick my block to launch their invasion. That was their big mistake. But like a lot of dreams, it got sidetracked until recently, when I decided to focus my passion on an era and subject that interested me a great deal. Like my characters in Ancient Rome, I have served as the pointy tip of the spear of our nation's policy, and it is with this perspective that I tell the story of Titus Pullus and his friends. This is my first published novel, and is the first in a completed four-book series that covers the career of Titus Pullus.

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In R. W. Peake's...Marching with Caesar: Conquest of Gaul, readers follow the story of Titus Pullus. Peake, a retired infantry Marine, brings to the familiar story of Caesar's conquest of Gaul the gritty, boots-on-the-ground realism of personal experience, and the results are amazingly compelling.....Peake's exhaustive research shows on every page, but always fascinating, never tedious......the dialogue crackles with realism... Fans of Roman historical fiction--or military fiction just in general--shouldn't miss what looks to be one heck of a series.
-The Historical Novel Society

"The hinge of history pivoted on the career of Julius Caesar, as Rome's Republic became an Empire, but the muscle to swing that gateway came from soldiers like Titus Pullus. What an amazing story from a student now become the master of historical fiction at its best." ~ Professor Frank Holt, University of Houston

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