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May 13, 2020
A World Divided
New history blog article from me:
"A World Divided" - the Bronze Age's Rubicon moment.
https://www.gordondoherty.co.uk/write...
"A World Divided" - the Bronze Age's Rubicon moment.
https://www.gordondoherty.co.uk/write...
May 1, 2020
LEGIONARY: DARK EAGLE - now just 99p
Not read Dark Eagle yet? Good news - it's in @amazon 's monthly deal for May - 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟵𝟵𝗽
Enjoy 😀
http://getbook.at/Legionary8
#IsolationReads #Roman #HistFic #AmazonDeals
Enjoy 😀
http://getbook.at/Legionary8
#IsolationReads #Roman #HistFic #AmazonDeals
April 17, 2020
Empires of Bronze: Dawn of War
I'm excited to announce that Prince Hattu is back in 'Empires of Bronze: Dawn of War' - up for pre-order now, launching on 7th May 😀
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#Hittite #BronzeAge
http://getbook.at/eob2
#Hittite #BronzeAge
March 19, 2020
Eagles in the Desert
In this time of great uncertainty, reading is one of the few pleasures left available. So...
Who wants a FREE short story set in the late Roman Empire? Well, you can have a copy of 'Eagles in the Desert' - a prequel to the Legionary series - on me!
Click here to get your copy:
https://www.gordondoherty.co.uk/eagle...
Who wants a FREE short story set in the late Roman Empire? Well, you can have a copy of 'Eagles in the Desert' - a prequel to the Legionary series - on me!
Click here to get your copy:
https://www.gordondoherty.co.uk/eagle...
March 9, 2020
Troy: Myth and Reality
A few visual highlights from my visit to the British Museum to see the exhibition about Troy, the Trojan War and its far-reaching consequences:
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February 25, 2020
New history blog "In the Eye of the Storm - a look at the RomanEmpire in 382 AD"
n 382 AD, after 6 years of ruinous warfare between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Goths, the two powers finally struck a deal for peace. But history tells us that peace is a rare and short-lived phenomenon. As it proved, this period of accord served merely as a fermentation ground for new and world-changing conflicts...
Read in full at:
https://www.gordondoherty.co.uk/write...
Read in full at:
https://www.gordondoherty.co.uk/write...
February 19, 2020
Giveaway: win a paperback or Kindle bundle!
Star reviewer David Baird is running the following giveaway comp for Dark Eagle on his site davidsbookblurg.co.uk:
"To be in with a chance to win a copy of @GordonDoherty's latest book.. Legionary : Dark Eagle click here - https://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/dis...
"
That's right, a shiny new paperback or a Kindle bundle of several of my books - all potentially yours, just a click away!
Please do enter and share this post!
"To be in with a chance to win a copy of @GordonDoherty's latest book.. Legionary : Dark Eagle click here - https://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/dis...
"
That's right, a shiny new paperback or a Kindle bundle of several of my books - all potentially yours, just a click away!
Please do enter and share this post!
February 8, 2020
New from me - LEGIONARY: DARK EAGLE
Big news - volume 8 of the Legionary series has arrived!
Here's the book on GoodReads:
Dark Eagle
Here's a place you can buy a copy directly:
http://getbook.at/Legionary8
...and here's my recent mailchimp newsletter with details about this book and a few others, and an offer of a FREE short story:
https://mailchi.mp/05b3a0f24ae2/legio...
Here's the book on GoodReads:
Dark Eagle
Here's a place you can buy a copy directly:
http://getbook.at/Legionary8
...and here's my recent mailchimp newsletter with details about this book and a few others, and an offer of a FREE short story:
https://mailchi.mp/05b3a0f24ae2/legio...
September 10, 2019
The Great Hittite Trail - A Travelogue
For the last few decades I have developed an unhealthy obsession with The Aegean and Turkey - a land riddled with history, steeped in legend and lore. Every book I have written has been set in or around that region. I have been fortunate enough to enjoy a number of forays around the lands of Constantinople (Istanbul), Greece, southern Thrace (European Turkey and Bulgaria) and around Turkey's western and southern coastal regions. But apart from a few expeditions inland - to Pergamum, Ephesus and Pamukkale, I had never yet truly penetrated the rugged interior or north of Turkey.
Madness! Considering my Strategos trilogy was set up there in the borderlands between the Byzantine and Seljuk domains. Insanity! Given my new Hittite series, Empires of Bronze, was based up there too. And it's this current series that drove me to finally plan and execute this adventure - a trip that would take me from Istanbul, three millenia ago the western edge of the Hittite realm, to Georgia, on the eastern periphery of the ancient Hittite world.
So join me in my travels across this ancient land as I seek out remnants of the once-great and long lost civilization of the Hittites. Join me... on the Great Hittite Trail!
http://www.gordondoherty.co.uk/writeb...
July 31, 2019
Bronze Age Lightsabers: did the Hittites have Iron Weapons?
Okay, so forgive me for the *ridiculous* photoshop image (but it was fun to do)...
...this blog article looks at the commonly-held belief that, during the Bronze Age, the Hittites were armed with superior iron weapons: http://www.gordondoherty.co.uk/writeb...
Empires of Bronze: Son of Ishtar
