I don't know where they got their background history/details, but I do remember that the series tracked pretty well with Bernard Lewis’
The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years – whose "not-so-brief" several hundred pages I also read before my trip.
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Originally Posted by maddz
Not on sale in the UK, but Kobo UK are a bit cheaper than Amazon UK, standardising on £3.99/book and £9.99 for the 1st 4 as a box set. Amazon are a mix of £3.99 and £4.99 and a bit over £10 for the set - and I have a 20% off code.
I might take a punt on these; they sound interesting; I wonder how much they owe to Procopius' Secret Histories?
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