Thank you for this very valuable reply - and for giving us all a balancing out picture of the Roman Man; the thinking man Cicero to off-set the action man Caesar. I hugely enjoyed all 3 books and one of my first thoughts reading Imperium was 'what a pity this was not around while I was studying Greek and Roman Civilisation for my A levels.' The whole pulsating life was there to be lived through on paper - not ploughed through with hard graft. I also enjoyed Pompeii very much, and went on the virtual tour, and read part of Pliney as a result. The Ghost however sent real shivers and we can all see how accurate the story was, at least partly at a minimum, now, far more than we could see then... Thank you for them all, and the Fatherland waiting patiently on my shelves for a while. Living in Germany for the past 20 years, I am cautious about letting the incisive writing based on deep research perhaps bringing the hard won emotional status quo too much to a disquiet I think :) Exactly now is then the time to start on it - probably. You wouldn't like to give us a book on the New World Order the Brexit the Deep State the Corona conspiracy etc. would you? One can but hope!
I hugely enjoyed all 3 books and one of my first thoughts reading Imperium was 'what a pity this was not around while I was studying Greek and Roman Civilisation for my A levels.' The whole pulsating life was there to be lived through on paper - not ploughed through with hard graft.
I also enjoyed Pompeii very much, and went on the virtual tour, and read part of Pliney as a result.
The Ghost however sent real shivers and we can all see how accurate the story was, at least partly at a minimum, now, far more than we could see then...
Thank you for them all, and the Fatherland waiting patiently on my shelves for a while. Living in Germany for the past 20 years, I am cautious about letting the incisive writing based on deep research perhaps bringing the hard won emotional status quo too much to a disquiet I think :) Exactly now is then the time to start on it - probably.
You wouldn't like to give us a book on the New World Order the Brexit the Deep State the Corona conspiracy etc. would you? One can but hope!