Fall of Civilizations, Paul Cooper‘s history on the rise and fall of ancient civilisations, has been praised in a review by Max Hastings in The Sunday Times.

In the review, which subscribers can read in full here, Hastings writes:

“Paul Cooper is a phenomenon… Cooper addresses a new public in new ways, through a mastery of anecdotage and accessible storytelling.”

Based on the podcast with over 100 million downloads, Fall of Civilizations brilliantly explores how a range of ancient societies rose to power and sophistication, and how they tipped over into collapse.

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 will be released in the UK on 25th April and in the US on 23rd July. Pre-order your copy here now in the UK and here in the US.

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