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 2,000 years after his death, Qin Shihuangdi is still vilifed as one of the great destroyers of history. Yet, by annihilating the warring states, he unifed China; while burning books and executing scholars, he also standardised 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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