George Philip Baker

George Philip Baker (Plumstead, 21 May 1879 – 19 April 1951 ) was a British author, who published several popular history books in the 1920s and 1930s.

Life As Baker was deaf from eight years old, he couldn't serve in the English army, but he would serve almost all of his adult life as a civil servant in the Royal Artillery.

Sulla the fortunate: the great dictator; being an essay on politics in the form of a historical biography, New York, 1927. Tiberius Cæsar, New York, 1928. Hannibal, New York, 1929. Constantine the Great and the Christian revolution, New York, 1930. The fighting kings of Wessex: a gallery of portraits, New York, 1931. Justinian, New York, 1931. Charlemagne, and the united states of Europe, New York, 1932. Twelve centuries of Rome: 753 B.C. - A.D. 476, London, 1934. A book of battles; being a description of fifteen battles that determined the course of civilization, together with some account of the men who fought them and the women who influenced them, New York, 1935. Augustus: the Golden Age of Rome, New York, 1937.