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In this dynamic and engaging biography, Anthony Everitt plunges us into the fascinating, scandal-ridden world of ancient Rome in its most glorious heyday. Accessible to us through his legendary speeches but also through an unrivaled collection of unguarded letters to his close friend Atticus, Cicero comes to life here as a witty and cunning political operator.

Marcus Tullius Cicero ist eine der faszinierendsten Persönlichkeiten der späten römischen Republik. Wie kaum ein anderer verkörperte er die klassischen Ideale der altrömischen Tugenden - und geriet gerade deswegen in den Strudel der untergehenden republikanischen Ordnung. Die Idealvorstellungen des römischen Staates sah er gefährdet durch sozialrevolutionäre Politiker wie Catilina und wurde damit automatisch zum Gegenspieler Caesars.

Pompey, Caesar, Cicero, Brutus, Antony: the names resonate across thousands of years. Major figures in the civil wars that brutally ended the Roman republic, their lives still haunt us as examples of how the hunger for personal power can overwhelm collective politics, how the exaltation of the military can corrode civilian authority, and how the best intentions can lead to disastrous consequences. Plutarch renders these history-making lives as flesh-and-blood characters.

In the aftermath of World War II, Germany lay in ruins—its cities bombed, its people starving, its identity fractured. In German Autumn, Swedish journalist Stig Dagerman delivers a raw and unfiltered account of life in occupied Germany during the fall of 1946.