In The Shadow Of The Sword - The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World

Author(s): Tom Holland

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In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two venerable empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on, and one had vanished forever, while the other seemed almost finished. Ruling in their place were the Arabs: an upheaval so profound that it spelt, in effect, the end of the ancient world.In The Shadow of the Sword, Tom Holland explores how this came about. Spanning Constantinople to the Arabian desert, and starring some of the most remarkable rulers who ever lived, he tells a story vivid with drama, horror and startling achievement.

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A stunning blockbuster -- Robert Fisk Independent A compelling detective story of the highest order, In the Shadow of the Sword is also a dazzlingly colourful journey into the world of late antiquity. Every bit as thrilling a narrative history as Holland's previous works, [it] is also a profoundly important book -- Christopher Hart Sunday Times 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

Tom Holland is the author of Rubicon, which was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2004; Persian Fire, which won the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award 2006; and the highly acclaimed Millennium. He has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for BBC Radio.

General Fields

  • : 9780349122359
  • : Little Brown
  • : Abacus
  • : 0.478
  • : March 2013
  • : 198mm X 126mm
  • : April 2013
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Tom Holland
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 909.097671
  • : very good
  • : xviii, 574
  • : HBLA
  • : Colour