Review: Story of ancient Babylon.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2014
Not a bad story about a long series of pitched battles and sieges that eventually became the foundation of the Babylonian Empire. The author describes the action smartly enough but I found the book extremely  confusing due to a very long list of characters with names like Mutu-Nemaha, Narem Suen and Ishma-Degan and such-like. As a Western reader I was never able to come to terms with these names so spent much of the time trying to work out who was who. Was it the King's son, Chief of Camel Archers, Prince of another city, etc. I usually waited for the text to give me a clue, if I was lucky.The story is the success of the Babylonian King in a long line of battles and for me these became a little tedious as it went along. I wish he had spent more time on the personal stories and political intrigues, plots and betrayals rather than the sword wielding and arrow lobbing.Whilst there were a couple of typos it was not a major issue in my opinion and I do not feel that proof reading was such a serious problem as one reviewer here complains.