Fall of Civilizations, Paul Cooper‘s ‘immersive’ (The Times) non-fiction debut is out now in paperback!

Across the centuries, we journey from the great empires of Mesopotamia to those of Khmer and Vijayanagara in Asia and Songhai in West Africa; from Byzantium to the Maya, Inca and Aztecs of Central America; from Roman Britain to Rapa Nui. With meticulous research, breathtaking insight and dazzling, empathic storytelling, historian and novelist Paul Cooper evokes the majesty and jeopardy of these ancient civilizations, and asks what it might have felt like for a person alive at the time to witness the end of their world.

Fall of Civilizations is out now. Grab your US copy here and your UK copy here or, better, via your local bookshop or Bookshop.org.

You can find out more about Paul here and subscribe to his podcast here.

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