Vaishali Lad Lad itibaren Taşlık Köyü/Karacabey/Bursa, Türkiye itibaren Taşlık Köyü/Karacabey/Bursa, Türkiye

I just couldn't get into this book. It was so slow-moving and the descriptions of the torture just too horrific. It's too bad because it sounded like it would be right up my alley.

This was a very good biography (essentially) of C. Julius Caesar Octavian (Augustus). Looking both at Octavian, this book takes a wider view and examines the people and political processes that allowed the transition from the Roman Republic to the Empire, while simultaneously "telling the story" of the collapse of the Roman Republic. My only qualm was the book's fatalistic viewpoint, which felt that the Republic was doomed to fail and that Augustus was predestined to play the role which he did in Roman history.