WARRIORS OF ANCIENT CHINA
May Holdsworth
The entombed terracotta army of China?s First Emperor, accidentally discovered in 1974, was hailed as ?the archaeological find of the century.? What manner of man built so grandly for the afterlife? Over more than 2,000 years after his death, Qin Shihuangdi is still vilified as one of the great destroyers of history. Yet, by annihilating the warring states, he unified China; while burning books and executing scholars, he also standardized the written script; after dismantling fortifications and city walls, he ordered the Great Wall to be built. Concisely written and handsomely illustrated, this is an account of the paradoxical tyrant and reformer behind that astonishing mausoleum.

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