Gerhard Herm was born in 1931, studied in Munich and the United States and now lives near Munich. He has produced a number of documentary films for German television on Mediterranean civilizations and his most recent book, The Phoenicians (published in England in 1975), has been translated into twenty-four languages.
Books in order of publication:
| The Phoenicians: The Purple Empire Of The Ancient World | 1973 |
| The Celts | 1976 |
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