Follow in the footsteps of famous World War II codebreaker Alan Turing who used impeccable logic to decipher the military codes
...Published in association with the Turing Trust, this challenging collection of more than 120 puzzles will put your number & logic
...As the year 1349Â approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course across Engl&. In Dorseteshire, the quarantined
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One of them was a military genius; one murdered his mother & fiddled while Rome burned. Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide, & five of them were elevated to the status of gods. They have come to be known as the twelve Caesars
- Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus & Domitian. Under their rule, Rome was transformed from a republic to an empire, whose model of regal autocracy would survive in the West for more than a thousand years.
In The Twelve Caesars, Matthew Dennison offers a beautifully crafted sequence of imperial portraits, triumphantly evoking the luxury, licence, brutality & sophistication of imperial Rome at its zenith.