1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
by Eric H. Cline
If you’re interested in the events around the bronze age collapse, this is the latest “hot” book that everyone in that arena seems to be talking about. I read through it a couple of years ago, and while I don’t remember many specifics (I’ll probably have to read it again someday!), I remember it being not too bad, in the sense that it seems to straddle a line between purely “pop” history and hard scholarship. Check it out, if you like reading that sort of thing.
If reading’s not for you, here’s a talk he did for the Long Now Foundation that you can watch. (If he tells you anything that contradicts stuff that I’ve said, I apologize for being a doofus.):
