ANCIENT VOICES
Learning from Pompeii
By Ann Sloane
Day One. 112 pages. £6
ISBN 978 1 846 253 980
This latest addition to the ‘History Today’ series takes us back to AD79 and to Pompeii and Herculaneum – towns which grew up in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius.
These places have gone down in history because, before the year was over, they lay destroyed – at the cost of many lives – and were lost for the next 1600 years.
