Pompeii: A History of the City and the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius - Paperback
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Pompeii gets a short readable history here, from the water system and the amphitheater to the morning Mount Vesuvius ended the city.
The city was advanced for its moment, with piped water, a gymnasium and a crowd big enough to fill an arena. None of that helped in 79 AD.
Inside this short history
The rise, the eruption that killed more than fifteen thousand people, and the long rediscovery that turned a buried town into the best record we have of Roman daily life.
Roman society before the eruption gets its own space, which readers say is what stops it reading as a disaster pamphlet.
What buyers flag
The typesetting is uneven. One reader describes half empty pages sitting next to full ones, and that is a fair warning at this length.
From the publisher
Pompeii was one of most advanced cities of its time; it had a complex water system, gymnasium, and an amphitheater. Despite it's advancements, there was one thing it wasn't ready for: Mount Vesuvius--the volcano that led to its ultimate doom.
The 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius was one of the worst disasters in all of European history. In a near instant, over 15,000 people were dead and a city was completely destroyed.
This book looks at the rise, fall, and rediscovery of the great city of Pompeii.
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