[Alan Callow]

Over the holiday period I watched Michael Wood's "Alexander's Greatest Battle" on one of the Satrellite channels. An excellent 50 minute programme filling in a missing part from 'in the Footsteps of Alexander' that was due to Saddam Hussein taking offence at one of Michael's earlier documentaries (persecution of the Marsh Arabs). Anyway to get to the point I have been a huge fan of Michael's programmes since the excellent 'In search of the dark ages' which originally aired whilst I was doing A level history. Does anybody know where one could obtain a copy of this superb series?

[Guiscard]

Hi Alan,

Michael's impressive first series (In Search of the Dark Ages) can be seen here on Youtube;-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCsXLdytwj8&feature=related

A member of my website ('Hus') and whose history forum I am also a member of, once emailed Michael and stated that the historian replied, politely saying that the series wouldn't be released on dvd etc due to the original being shot on 16mm.

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[joice129]

Some people have belittled Wood as a historian. But I have always enjoyed his In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great. Sure it doesn't offer the in-depth analysis levitra that you find in some scholarly Alexander books. But I didn't expect it to. The fact that he went to the sites of the events was exciting to me.

I also really liked his Conquistadors. Which is another area of history I often travel to from my armchair.

[david nystuen]

Michael does a great job of bring history to life. Of course there are those who don't like his approach, but keep in mind they are just jealous.

[ilikemoncler]

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