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The Eternal City: A History of Rome
Written by Fredinand Addis
Narrated by Pete Cross
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Experience the rich story of Rome, the Capital of the World, and its history, told by a master historian in a grand narrative style for a new generation.
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Fredinand Addis
Ferdinand Addis has been fascinated by Rome since reading Livy as a teenager. He studied classics at Oxford, then worked in film and journalism before giving it up to write history. He lives in East London with his wife and daughter.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Excellent level of details to go over the major incidents/events especially from the Middle Ages like Cola. Strangely Caravaggio’s line is not even a sentence while the English poets eat up an hour. But loved it overall for covering it up to just after WW2.