Pompeii: From the Sunday Times bestselling author

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The tension is nice and high, with Attilius aware that he's in constant danger, regardless of what he does (being the aquarius when the aqueduct breaks is a bad career move for a start, and, of course, that turns out to be the least of his problems . For this group of people, Pompeii would be a wonderful place to start in your reading about the history of the ancient roman town.

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With the heat of the summer at an all time peak, the richest members of ancient roman society go to their country homes in the By a of Naples. However, a reader can learn the general succession of events during the final days at Pompeii, including the tremors, accurate timeline of the eruption, and even the role of Pliny and his failed rescue mission as the volcano begins to erupt. He does this for the sake and safety of the town, despite it going against the gods, showing that it is more important to keep people safe in the wake of a disaster than it is to worship. Robert reveals how Ingham, who was once an ardent socialist in the 1960s, rose to become one of the Prime Minister's most loyal lieutenants.It is forbidden to copy anything for publication elsewhere without written permission from the copyright holder. Harris provides an awe-inspiring tour of one of the monumental engineering triumphs on which the Roman empire was based…. A further aspect of the books that I enjoyed was the authentic feel of the region around Vesuvius, including the cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Misenum.

Pompeii - Penguin Books UK

This shows how freemen citizens get more rights, by getting to be at the front, due to their status and wealth, while women, slaves, freedmen, and all others are forced to the back.When historian Fluke Kelso learns of the existence of a secret notebook belonging to Josef Stalin he is determined to track it down, whatever the consequences. Attilius begins repairing a tunnel under Mount Vesuvius, finding evidence in Exomnius’s records that his predecessor was worried about the phenomenon surrounding the volcano because of his own experience when Mount Etna erupted near his hometown. He relished the fact that power, real power, should be kept hidden: an invisible force that permitted the people these civic ceremonials…” (Harris p. Ancient Rome is the setting for the superb new novel from Robert Harris, author of the number one bestsellers Fatherland, Enigma and Archangel. Present day Vatican turns into a den of ambition in this novel by best-selling author of Enigma and Fatherland.