Moving from the very beginnings of civilisation, right up to the digital horizons of cyberspace, Jamie Crawford pieces together the biographies of twenty of the world’s most fascinating lost & ruined structures. The lives of these buildings are packed with drama & intrigue combining war & religion, politics & art, love & betrayal, catastrophe & hope. They are also the stage for a startling array of characters including Gilgamesh, the Cretan Minotaur, Agamemnon, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, Adolf Hitler & even Bruce Springsteen. Travelling from the deserts of Iraq, the banks of the Nile, the grasslands of the Mongolian steppes & the cloud forests of Peru, to the great cities of Jerusalem, Istanbul, Paris, Rome, London & New York, Fallen Glory is a unique, globetrotting guide to a world of vanished architecture. &, by picking through the fragments of our past, it asks what history’s scattered ruins can tell us about our own future.