
Those Who Are About To Die by Harry Sidebottom (Cornerstone, 2026)
History
Those Who Are About to Die by Harry Sidebottom (ISBN: 9781529154009, hardback). See ancient Rome, and peer into the Roman mind, through the eyes of a gladiator—from the evening before the games at the Colosseum to the evening after. Harry Sidebottom pulls us into the arena, and into the homes and forums of ancient Rome, taking the reader on an eye-opening, twenty-four-hour tour through Roman life at the height of the gladiatorial games, from the first century BC to the second century AD.