The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol I: From Antiquity to the Caesars, 14 A.D.

By Conrad Black

Book Overview

The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol I: From Antiquity to the Caesars, 14 A.D. covers great swathes of time beginning with the earliest written records of the Hebrews, Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians, and the ancient East, through the rise of the Greeks and Persians, the conquests of Alexander the Great, and then the rise of Rome, culminating in the Augustan Empire. The great men and women of the ancient world are portrayed with admiration (or opprobrium) and always with a dash of humor and the perspective that only someone as widely read and deeply learned as Lord Black can deliver. This is a landmark history which will stand together with Gibbon, Mommsen, Prescott, and Churchill among the greatest histories of the world ever written.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1943003874
• ISBN13: 9781943003877
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: New English Review Press
• Length: 1152 Pages
• Weight: 3.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Outstanding book

If you love history from the very beginning, this is for you. The author delves into the surroundings of events that are glossed over in other works. This book fills in the holes that lets you see why things happened.