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In The Shadow Of The Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World
Tom Holland
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Description for In The Shadow Of The Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World
Paperback. From the bestselling author of Rubicon and Persian Fire comes this thrilling panoramic account of the rise of Islam Num Pages: 592 pages, Section: 16, colour photos. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1QDA; 3D; HBJF1; HBLA; HRAX; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 39. Weight in Grams: 466.
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'A stunning blockbuster' Robert Fisk 'A compelling detective story of the highest order' Sunday Times In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two great empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on, and one had vanished for ever, while the other was a dismembered, bleeding trunk. In their place, a new superpower had arisen: the empire of the Arabs. So profound was this upheaval that it spelled, in effect, the end of the ancient world. ... Read more
A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'A stunning blockbuster' Robert Fisk 'A compelling detective story of the highest order' Sunday Times In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two great empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on, and one had vanished for ever, while the other was a dismembered, bleeding trunk. In their place, a new superpower had arisen: the empire of the Arabs. So profound was this upheaval that it spelled, in effect, the end of the ancient world. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
487g
Number of Pages
592
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349122359
SKU
V9780349122359
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About Tom Holland
Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. He is the author of Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire, his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, won the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award in 2006; Millennium: The End of the ... Read more
Reviews for In The Shadow Of The Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World
Written with flamboyant elegance and energetic intensity, Holland delivers a brilliant tour de force of revisionist scholarship and thrilling storytelling with a bloodspattered cast of swashbuckling tyrants, nymphomaniacal empresses and visionary prophets . . . Unputdownable
Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Times
A compelling detective story of the highest order, In the Shadow of the Sword is also ... Read more
Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Times
A compelling detective story of the highest order, In the Shadow of the Sword is also ... Read more