richard blake blood of alexandra i have seen blakes byzantine thriilers before i like this period but kept on picking themup. opening at random finding turgid converstion and limp plotting and putting them back
this promised much the old familiar archaelogical thriller alexanders tomb mixed up with yet again a secret brotherhood guarding the old faith of the pharoahs clues that led to a lost pre altlantean city in the desert whose lost knowledge had helped create the glories of hellenistic science butvery much a talk novel with signposted charactors that by being in the previous two books you were now expected to know well
incidently looked at blakes blog he adds book reviews of his works by others
love to add one myself but have feeling i will read all the other novels in this series despite not really liking the predictable dull 7th century modern talk action and adventure is it junk food or what ?
complete gods and goddess of the ancient egyptians the old faith itself only showed the egyptians had a god for everything and that their religion was mainly cultic
jerusalem the biography by simon sebag montefiore from the book of kings to the six day war jersualem as the backdrop to all the main events from jesus to the crusades and onto the apocalyspe
eugene rogans the arabs a history narrative touched on similar ground and events but saw the last five hundred years as a fight against ottoman and european colonialism
only goes to show the history remains how we write it changes
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