Julius Caesar: Man, Soldier, and Tyrant (Wordsworth Military Library)

Fuller, J. F. C.

ISBN 10: 1853266922 / ISBN 13: 9781853266928

Published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd (edition ), 1998

About this Item

It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Julius Caesar: Man, Soldier, and Tyrant (Wordsworth Military Library)
• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd (edition )
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853266922
• ISBN 13: 9781853266928
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

This text covers Caesar's rise to power, and deals in detail with his campaign in Gaul. It follows his career from then until his death, through the conflict with Pompey and the futile Alexandrian campaign. The tactics and strategy of Caesar's wars are related to their political and diplomatic matrix, and through his conduct as a general, much of his character is revealed. Fuller concludes that Caesar was no innovator in the art of war, but that his great gift was for dash - frequently extracting himself from an apparently impossible position by the speed and impetus of his response. But frequently the position was due in the first place to Caesar's own error.

About the Author

Major General J.F.C. Fuller (1878-1966) was one of the most important and original military thinkers of this century. He served as lieutenant in the Boer War, organized the first British tank corps in World War I, and developed the strategy and tactics of tank warfare which were later put to such effective use by the Nazis for their World War II blitzkriegs. His many books include A Military History of the Western World (3 volumes), The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant, Julius Caesar: Man, Soldier, and Tyrant, and The Generalship of Alexander the Great, all of which are available from Da Capo Press/Perseus Book Group.