ABOUT THE BOOK
Great Meetings of History puts you in the room for twenty-two of history's most extraordinary encounters — Alexander the Great being told by a philosopher to move out of his sunlight; Cleopatra smuggled past palace guards rolled in a carpet; Mandela and de Klerk beginning the negotiations that ended apartheid.
Feel the tension as Martin Luther refuses to recant before the Holy Roman Emperor. Watch Napoleon and Tsar Alexander stage a false friendship on a raft in the middle of a river while two armies watch from the banks. Every chapter reduces history's grandest moments to what they actually were: two people reading each other across whatever divided them, uncertain, and occasionally afraid.
Not the polished dispatch. Not the official record. The room itself — the pause before the first word, the remark instantly regretted, the handshake that decides the fate of millions.
Great Meetings Of History
"History rarely turns in parliaments and battlefields alone — sometimes it turns in a single room, between two people, when everything was still uncertain."
