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Originally Posted by sufue

Marcus Agrippa: Right-hand Man of Caesar Augustus is a biography of...you can probably guess ...by Lindsay Powell, published by UK specialty publisher Pen & Sword.

Spoiler:

It has recommendations by profs at some pretty respected universities: University of Texas, Cornell, and University of Buckingham. It has dropped to $1.30 as part of today's US Kindle Daily Deal. My son loves Roman history, and although not quite as enthusiastic as he is, I like it too. And it's nice sometimes to read about the really important, but not-quite-headliners, of history. So, I'm probably going to bite on this one.

I did scan through the first couple handfuls of reviews of the Kindle edition, looking for comments about the maps/figures issues that have been mentioned for some other Pen & Sword books, but didn't see any. Doesn't mean they aren't a problem - just that the reviews I looked at don't mention them. And in the sample there is a family tree figure that looks okay too - not great, but definitely okay.

link: https://www.amazon.com/Marcus-Agripp.../dp/B00TOXQLDY

Still $1.30 at amazon US.

Quite a few of the maps and figures are quite good for a contemporary e-book and quite a few are at least OK. The first few maps aren't all that good, but the rest are above average for e-books and are reasonably decent. The multi-page "Chronology" and "List of Consuls" tables are margin cropped scanned images with poor contrast making them more uncomfortable to read than necessary. The family tree diagram is much better than the tables, but could have been better. I haven't seen other Pen & Sword books, but I'm guessing this is more than a step up.