Books by Robert Payne

Born in Cornwall in 1911, Robert Payne was educated at St Paul's School, at the universities of Capetown and Liverpool and at the Sorbonne. At various times a shipwright, an armaments officer, a news correspondent, a translator, a professor of English and a pilot, but always a historian, he lived all over Europe and Africa and in Asia. He was author of over fifty books including The Splendour of Persia, The Holy Sword and The Gold of Troy.