Ancient Egypt is a place shrouded in myth, mystery and misunderstanding, much of it seemingly deliberately inspired by the people themselves. In other words, it…
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From a British point of view, events in the Middle East and North Africa during the Second World War were at least as important as…
Autobiographies and memoirs can be a bit of a minefield. Even if you weed out those written by ‘celebrities’ not yet old enough to hold…
I am a great fan of Stephen Saylor’s ‘Roma sub Rosa’ series; Gordianus is one of my favourite fictional characters. Having completed the original series,…
This is a very dense book! In 600 pages, it aims to cover a period of nearly a thousand years; a period that still forms…