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30 Days: A Month at the Heart of Blair's War by Peter Stothard
Category: History
For thirty extraordinary days, in March and April 2003, Tony Blair defied street protests, party revolts, allied anger and government resignations in order to send British troops to Iraq to oust Saddam Hussein. What was it like inside Downing Street during that time? What was it like while the Prim ...Show more
Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra by Peter Stothard
Category: History
Finding himself in Alexandria in the winter of 2010, Peter Stothard, editor of the TLS and former editor of The Times, is forced to contemplate his past in circumstances he does not expect. The aftermath of a bombing and the onset of the Arab Spring place obstacles in his plans to complete a long-delaye ...Show more
Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra by Peter Stothard
Category: Travel
When Peter Stothard, editor of the Times Literary Supplement, finds himself stranded in Alexandria in the winter of 2010 after his flight to South Africa has been cancelled, he sets out to explore a nation on the brink of revolution. Guided by two native Egyptians, Stothard traces his own life-long inte ...Show more
Crassus: The First Tycoon by Peter Stothard
Category: Biography | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
The story of Rome's richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military gloryMarcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer disrupter of finance and politics, and the richest man of the last years of the Roman republic. Without his catastrophic am ...Show more
Crassus - The First Tycoon by Peter Stothard
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
The story of Rome's richest man, who died a humiliating desert death in search of military glory Marcus Licinius Crassus (115-53 BCE) was a modern man in an ancient world, a pioneer disrupter of finance and politics, and the richest man of the last years of the Roman republic. Without his catastrophic a ...Show more
On the Spartacus Road by Peter Stothard
Category: History
In this inspiring and original book, former editor of The Times, Sir Peter Stothard, re-traces the journey taken by Spartacus and his army of rebels. In the final century of the first Roman Republic an army of slaves brought a peculiar terror to the people of Italy. Its leaders were gladiators. Its purp ...Show more
On the Spartacus Road: A Spectacular Journey Through Ancient Italy by Peter Stothard
Category: History
In this inspiring and original book, former editor of The Times, Sir Peter Stothard, re-traces the journey taken by Spartacus and his army of rebels. In the final century of the first Roman Republic an army of slaves brought a peculiar terror to the people of Italy. Its leaders were gladiators. Its pur ...Show more
Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars by Peter Stothard
Category: History
This is an unusual history of a time that still defines our world - a view of the early Roman empire that its historians never intended us to see. Beginning sixty years after the assassination of Julius Caesar, it graphically depicts a story parallel to that of Caligula and Nero, and shows us those stru ...Show more
Palatine - An Alternative History of the Caesars by Peter Stothard
Category: Ancient History
A unique and entertaining history of the Roman Empire's first dynasty 14 CE: The first Roman emperor is dead. A second is about to succeed. The Forum of Rome, once fought over so fiercely, has become hardly more than a museum. The house of all power is up above on the Palatine Hill, about to become the ...Show more
The Last Assassin by Peter Stothard
Category: History
'A political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' Hilary Mantel Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined to kill the killers. From the spring of 44 BC through one of the most dramatic and influential periods in history, Caesar's adopted son, Octavian, the future Emperor Augustu ...Show more
The Last Assassin - The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar by Peter Stothard
Category: History
'Written with passion, authority and insight... a political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' - Hilary Mantel Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined to kill the killers. From the spring of 44 BC through one of the most dramatic and influential periods in history, Caesar's ...Show more
The Senecans by Peter Stothard
Category: History
A year after the death of Margaret Thatcher, a young woman arrives to ask Peter Stothard, former Editor of The Times, some sharp questions about his memories of the Thatcher era. During her interview the offices from where he long observed British politics are being flattened by wrecking balls. Forgotte ...Show more
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