1177 B.C.
Subtitle: the year civilization collapsed
Series: Turning points in ancient history
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ; Oxford, UK
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780691168388
Notes: With a new afterword by the author

Winner of the 2014 Award for the Best Popular Book, American Schools of Oriental Research.
Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Archeology & Anthropology, Association of American Publishers.
One of The New York Post’s Best Books of 2014.
One of The Federalist’s Notable Books of 2015.
One of The Australian’s Best Books of the Year in 2014, chosen by filmmaker Bruce Beresford.
Selected as the 'Book of the Semester' Fall 2016, David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham Young University.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : The collapse of civilizations : 1177 BC; title: Act one : Of arms and the man : the fifteenth century BC; title: Act two : An (Aegean) affair to remember : the fourteenth century BC; title: Act three : Fighting for gods and country : the thirteenth century BC; title: Act four : The end of an era : the twelfth century BC; title: A "perfect storm" of calamities; title: Epilogue : The aftermath