Book description
'What is the moment in history that you would like to have
witnessed-and why?' This is the thought-provoking question that Theodore
Rabb and Byron Hollinshead posed to twenty of our finest historians.
Their answers can be found in this fascinating and thoroughly readable
book, which trains a lens on crucial moments of our past and brings them
to vivid life. Contributors include Tom Holland, John Elliott, John
Julius Norwich, Margaret MacMillan and John Keegan and with these - and
other - peerless scholars as their guides, readers will be transported
to the death of Alexander the Great, Christmas 800CE when Charlemagne
was crowned Holy Roman Emperor, Hannibal's legendary crossing of the
Alps, Runnymede where King John was forced to sign Magna Carta, the
Spanish Armada, the Battle of the Nile, Paris 1919, the German surrender
in 1945 and the end of the First Gulf War. Imaginatively executed and
vividly written, the result is a pageant of character and event that
will attract and delight readers of history.
Theodore Rabb is a professor of Renaissance and early modern history
at Princeton University and the author of many acclaimed works of
history. Byron Hollinshead is president of American Historical
Publications. Previously, he was president of American Heritage
Publishing Company and Oxford University Press, Inc., and was
publisher of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History.
