We have an exciting new worldwide giveaway for you all here at Watchers on the Wall this week! Thanks to the folks at I.B.Tauris, we’re giving away three copies of the new book You Win or You Die: The Ancient World of Game of Thrones, by Ayelet Haimson Lushkov. With season seven on the horizon but not quite here, this is a great time for summer reading and digging into the rich history and mythology that inspires the extraordinary world of Westeros and Essos.
Entering is as easy as leaving a comment! (More entry methods below)
A little more about You Win or You Die, from the publishers:
If the Middle Ages form the present-day backdrop to the continents of Westeros and Essos, then antiquity is their resonant past. The Known World is haunted by the remnants of distant and powerful civilizations, without whose presence the novels of George R. R. Martin and the ever popular HBO show would lose much of their meaning and appeal. In this essential sequel to Carolyne Larrington‘s Winter is Coming: The Medieval World of Game of Thrones, Ayelet Haimson Lushkov explores the echoes, from the Summer Islands to Storm’s End, of a rich antique history. She discusses, for example, the convergence of ancient Rome and the reach, scope, and might of the Valyrian Freehold. She shows how the wanderings of Tyrion Lannister replay the journeys of Odysseus and Aeneas. She suggests that the War of the Five Kings resembles the War of the Four Emperors (68-69 AD). She also demonstrates just how the Wall and the Wildlings advancing on it connect with Hadrian’s bulwark against fierce tribes of Picts. This book reveals the remarkable extent to which the entire Game of Thrones universe is animated by its ancient past.
The author is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin, and has published writings on Game of Thrones in The Guardian. You can say hello to her on twitter at @Dr_AHL.
For those of you who just can’t wait to find out if you’ve won, pick up the book now on AmazonUK (£12.99)! You Win or You Die: The Ancient World of Game of Thrones will be released in the USA on July 25th.
Now, for the worldwide giveaway rules!
How do you enter? Choose one of these methods, or all three! to earn up to 3 total entries.
Method #1 – Comments: Simply comment on this post, using a valid email so we’re able to contact you if you win!
Method #2 – Twitter: Follow our Twitter, WatchersOTWall, and retweet the You Win or You Die: The Ancient World of Game of Thrones tweet (you must do both for the extra entry). If you already follow us, simply retweet the contest post.
Method #3 – Facebook: Like the WatchersontheWall Facebook page and Like & Share the You Win or You Die: The Ancient World of Game of Thrones post (you must do both for the extra entry). If you already Like our page, simply share the contest post and you are entered!
Entries are accepted until 12PM EDT, Wednesday, June 28th. The three (3) winners will be randomly selected and announced soon after the deadline on June 28th.
**The contest is worldwide** The winners are selected by random drawing. The winner/s must respond within 72 hours of notification or will forfeit their prize and another winner/s will be selected. The winner/s must have a valid shipping address.
Twitter and Facebook are their own entities and are in no way associated with this giveaway.
HODOR!
This would be great to preview the new HBO show(s)
[email protected]
Looks like a great read!
This could be an interesting read. 🙂
(We’ll need a good, new, lively thread for discussion so not every post is a contest entry for the next three weeks.) 😛
This looks so great. OMG!
Nice! I want it.
This is insensitive toward people who can’t read
mandatory comment 😛
This book is coming to Brazil.
Good luck to all! Would love to win!!
You know nothing
Winter is here :’)
sure
Awwww I’d love to get it!
This book looks so sick
ok, I’ll play
yup
France (and I) need this book. 🙂
I need this book. Need.
I need SOMETHING to read!!!!
Wow. This is new and different.
This would be a wonderful enhancement to our Game if Throne’s resource base. Very excited for the US release.
hodor!
This please.
I am praying to the old God’s and the new again! One day they will listen.
Oooh me please! 🙂
Ours is the Fury! Go Gendry, the rightful king of Westeros!
Ooooh yes please give me contenttttttrrr!!
Hodor!!!
reading is fundamental.
Would love this
Good luck everyone! Let it be me lol!
Onion Knight finds this verrrrrry a-peeling…
I want it.
Good luck everyone!
The greatest swordsman who ever lived didn’t have a sword?
Alea iacta est
Seven Blessings!
🙂 pls
Would loe to win too.
I’m taking my chance.
Good luck everyone!
I just might die if I don’t win.
(Pick me! Pick me!)
KING IN THE NORRRRRRTH!!!!
This book sounds fantastic!
I want to win win
And I’m in!
Derp
This looks absolutely gorgeous!
[email protected]
This would be awesome!
I want it 🙂 please
This will help with my drinking and knowing things!
That would be some good summer reading.
cant wait
Valar Morghulis!
I would love to win that book! 🙂
This has always been my favorite ASOIAF website 😉
Yes, please! Good luck, everyone
Not the book we were all expecting, but something I would be delighted to read!
Have been waiting since a long time to read it ! Seems the next best thing after Dunk and Egg !
Dracarys
“Generic quote from the show/book”
It looks amazing!
This looks interesting! I wouldn’t mind winning. Like, at all!!
Sounds like a fascinating read. [email protected]
Gimme
Valar Morghulis.
I’m in…
And I’m in too ;D
Fire and blood
Happy shitting !
Hook me up
We are the watchers on the wall…
Awesome!
Yay! i need some new reading.
Sounds like an interesting book! I would like to win a copy!
Oh this looks like an interesting read!
Winter is coming
Hodor!
Yes please!
King Stannis is my god!
Awesome!
This sounds incredible. I hope I win!
Always interested in expanding my library….bring it on!!
Birthday is coming!
Shame! Shame!
WANT. NEED. SUFFERING WITHDRAWALS.
I wanna win!
Feh, mayhaps I can win!
“a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge”
I’d love to read this.
Hodor
I don’t actually die if I don’t win this, do I?
Valar Morghulis
The night is dark.
Very interested to read this.
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This is different would love to win it
Look’s good!
7 blessings to you all
The Great War is Here!!!
Want this for my GoT library!
Yes please 🙂
Game of Thrones! If I don’t Win I may die!
Valar Morghulis.
I must win this book (or die)
For the book is dark and full of edits.
Sounds cool
Valahd!
Valar morghulis.
Say no to drugs, stay in school, eat your vegetables, vote Labour.
Hodor
please!!!! pick me!!
OOOO ooo pick me!
[email protected]
You can never go wrong with a new book!
“And Now it begins…….”
Would love to add this book to my collection!! A girl loves to read!!!
Well, the cover art is very good.
Josey Wales: “You’ll be Ten Bears?”
TB: “I am Ten Bears.”
JW: “I’m Josey Wales.”
TB: “I have heard. You are the grey rider, who would not make peace with the bluecoats.
You may go in peace.”
JW: “I reckon not. I got nowhere to go.”
TB: “Then you will die.”
Josey Wales: “I came here to die with you. Or live with you. Dying aint so hard for men like you and me, it’s living that’s hard…”
Seven hells! A great summer read!
win!
Gimme gimme!!
I guess I’ll have to buy and read her first book if I win!
Could be the most epic line of the Series… Cersei Lannister
I would really love to win,
though losing’s not a sin,
not like that time Tywin
took Shae out for a spin
But if I were to lose,
I don’t know which I’d choose,
either joining the Night’s Watch
or kicking Baelish in the crotch.
In like Jerome Flynn!
That’d be something epic to have!
Aww this looks so cool! Good luck everyone!
Dracarys!
My summer needs this.
I’d love to win a copy! I’m so invested in the lore and mythology of this series.
Pick me or I’ll pay the iron price for it!
Fear cuts deeper than sword!
I’m in!
This looks amazing
Hope I win!
Perfect holiday read!
Hoping to win! 🙂
HODOR – King of Door Holding!
Since it’s combining two of my favorite things in the world (history and a song of ice and fire) I wouldn’t mind winning this! 🙂
amazing
Me me me me please!
Hodor
HODOR!!
GoT + HISTORY = YAYYYYY!!!!
History!
A new and exciting read…I´m game!
Gimme. My birthday is this week. 🙂
Yes, this will go nicely with my modest collection!
Come Try Me
Jul 25 is my birthday~~~
Sure why not 🙂
“You win or you die” ( lets hope I win!! 😀)
Sounds like an excellent read!
Sounds great, bring it on:)!
This looks like a fine addition to my library.
The North Remembers.
Yeah, I’ll enter this. Looks like a fascinating book.
I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.
Nice!
moo
Sounds awesome!
I’m sure I’ll never win but I’m sure that’s what the last winner thought.
May the Old Gods and the New bless me!
Valar Morghulis.
You win and you die.
Thanks!
another book to add to the collection
Winter is Here!
I want, win and learn!
Gimme gimme!
Making the 8,
How would they be aware of it if they can’t read
Yes please!
Dracarys!!!
At least I won’t be destroying this book with a Valyrian sword.
Thank you in advance for choosing me *showing cleavage*
Hoping for the best, looks good!
Well, I would much rather win than die…
I’d love this
If I win this I won’t die. 🙂
You Win or You Die: – what a great name for a book.
PLEASE LET IT BE ME PLEASE LET IT BE ME PLAES LET IT BE ME PLESE TLET EM BE
I love summer reading….
I love to read just like Sam!
Nigeria needs it
I win or die
I will rule the 7 Kingdoms!
HODOR!
This sounds really interesting.
Love you website and you always come out with the latest before anyone else. Not even the YouTube channels for GOT are up to speed on news as you guys. Great job!!!
Randomize me!
You do rock! 👍👍👍
You win or you die
Hodor
I love Joffrey
Ah, perfect summer reading, send it to Sweden 🙂
Love this giveaway!
So ready to read this 😀
Egads! Free stuff.
Oi boi.
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities and allows you to win and read the book “You Win or You Die: The Ancient World of Game of Thrones”
Great!
I wish everyone good luck! I could say “Hodor” but that feels cliche. 😁
[email protected]
Alright!
Giveaway💯
Thanks
Every time I don’t win a giveaway, I die a little. But I am resurrected like Jon Snow, hoping that I’ll win next time.
Looks very nice, good luck to everyone and enjoy if you win.
[email protected]
i neeeeeeeed this
A woman wants this book.
This would be fantastic!
nah.
A Maester requires another book for his bookcase
The Great War is here
Let’s add a game within the game. The 100th person to parrot “Valar Morghulis” wins an extra prize!
Count me in
Valar Morghulis!
yay – a prize!
yes please 🙂
Would love to win!!
I want this!!!
Esto parece interesante….
Summer is coming!
Valar Morghulis!
Do I have any chances if I’m from Ukraine?
I win or I lose !!
In for the contest.
In honor of the author, Hook ’em Horns!
Sounds great!
love to read it
Awesome !
Will definitely read this when it comes out!
Entering to win! HODOR Hold the door…Never would have guessed that one! And plz don’t kill off Jon Snow because he may still know nothing, but he’s got great hair and is hot as the deserts of Dorne! [email protected]
Pick me, Pick me
So excited for this book!
This looks great!
Pick me, pick me!
Commenting for the win!
This is a wonderful gift!
Sounds like a very interesting book!
Man, might have to add this to my reading list. I think it would be fun to gather additional knowledge on the events and people in history that have influenced the world of GoT.
Finally! One of the most fascinating things about this show is the history and mythology it is inspired by so a collation of all those in one book is a dream come true!
Fabulous. I love to see how historical events from our world are woven into ASOIAF. Should be a good read.
hODOr.
Lomas Longstrider!
This would be an interesting point of view of what we expect if one day GRRRM would finish to write A Song of Ice and Fire saga.
“Now the rains weep O’er his halls with no one there to hear….”
Oh looks nice.
Valar Morghulis!
HAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yay for history and GOT!
Mother of Dragonflies
Yay! I’ve missed these giveaways! So exciting can’t wait for Season 7
That sounds nice 🙂
Hope to read this soon!
Valar Morghulis!
“comment”
Would love this. Currently re reading books 1- 5 for the the third time !
Looks interesting to read it ! Would be amazing .
Sounds super interesting!
Valar Morghulis..but a man would love to win and add a new book to his collection!
Have any of you read this yet?
Hodor!
It sounds like an interesting book.
This is the kind of thing that history buffs like me need
Ok, I am now entering the drawing.
Did all three! Yay!!!
Please, please, please pick me. My television is dark and full of reruns.
Thanks!
Gimme something
Thanks for the chance peeps!
Winter is here!
Cant wait any longer!
I will read it while sipping wine in the green glow of wildfire.
This book needs to come to Mauritius to me 😀
This book would help me through the long, bright, cold nights of a Scottish summer 😉
Please 😀
It worries me I’m so obsessed with a fictional history of a fictional world.
🙂
Tell me about it!
It also worries me that I’m so emotionally invested in a fictional family in a fictional world.
#PrepareForWinter
A man wants this!
Would love to have this!
Me! Me! Me!
I’d love this for more GOT reading in my future.
Choose me !!!
That’s so cool!
Count me in!
Awesome giveaway, guys! Thanks!
That’s a great cover!
when you play game of thrones
Pretty cool! Yes please.
Can’t win if you don’t buy a ticket.
Would love to have this book!
A man would like to read this one. Thanks for the giveaway!
I hope I win one!
This one would make me happy!
Life can be so trying at times: You want summer to pass as slowly as possible., but Games of Thrones arrives July 16 and it seems to be taking forever. Push-Pull, Push-Pull.
Hullo!
Joined
Good luck!
If Spider Man says that is A fascinating guide… it must be.
You win or you die, but you’ll probably still die anyway
Fascinating.
Would love this!!!!
Would be a lovely early birthday gift for myself :3
yes please
I wanna win! Choose me!
I want it
Well, I hope I’ll win, because I really don’t like the other option.
Thanks for offering this!
Sounds like an interesting thing to read… I’d like to read it…
Wtf a lommy???
I want it.
This is so Hodor!!
Valar Morghulis!
The Gods ain’t done with you Sandor CLEGANE….
Yes please!
What is dead may never die, but rises again, book in hand.
Valar Morghulis!
Love it. Hope to win
You win and you read – there is no middleground.
Would be superhappy if I was lucky to win!
I just want to say, that I’m still not over Robb’s death.
me! me!
This sounds fascinating. I would love to win one.
A massive HODOR!!!!
I need something to read in my new home this summer! Good luck to everyone!
I want to win this!
Interesting perspective! This could tide us over til David Peterson publishes his guide to Valyrian.
Awesomeness
Looks like a good way to brush up on your history by connecting it with GoT.
Another awesome give away!