CONTENTS 
PROLOGUE
The Collapse of Civilizations: 1177 BC 1
CHAPTER ONE
Act I. Of Arms and the Man: The Fifteenth Century BC 14
CHAPTER TWO
Act II. An (Aegean) Affair to Remember: The Fourteenth Century BC 43
CHAPTER THREE
Act III. Fighting for Gods and Country:
The Thirteenth Century BC 73
CHAPTER FOUR
Act IV. The End of an Era:
The Twelfth Century BC 102