Europa: The Making of the Nation States

March of the Titans

by Arthur Kemp

Volume Two of The March of the Titans Quadrilogy. Starting with with the end of the Eastern Roman Empire, this volume deals with the creation of each individual nation on the European Continent. It includes the Viking era and five Great Race Wars: the Crusades, the Bulgar and Avar invasions, Genghis Khan, and the Ottoman holocaust.

Genres: History

398 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Arthur Kemp was born of a British father and a Dutch mother in Southern Rhodesia in 1962. Educated in South Africa, he holds a B.A. degree in Political Science, International Politics and Public Administration, having studied at the University of Cape Town and the University of South Africa. He worked as a journalist on a major national daily newspaper, as an international risk consultant, as a retail market analyst for a blue chip company in the UK, and as a public relations consultant.

Reviews

[Vagabond of Letters, DLitt · Rating 3 out of 5]

9/10 and 2/10: An otherwise-excellent set of four introductory overview textbooks covering world history with a focus on Europe marred by a pro-pagan, anti-Christian stance and concomitant misrepresentation of church history, this second volume equals the first in quantity and quality of information with the same today unheard-of emphasis on group and tribe on history.

Good on history, very weak on religion, religious history, and the role of religion in history. The breadth and uniqueness of historical coverage are unavailable elsewhere.

[jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting and somewhat objective view of history, but it completely fails when discussing the Catholic Church. He criticizes ordeals and calls the Middle Ages “dark,” yet he forgets to mention that divine judgment by ordeal originally came from pagan traditions.