- genre:history, medieval history, Christianity
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Classical in form, cool, grave and earnest.
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- Author
- Tom Holland
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 476
- Publisher
- Little, Brown, Little, Brown Book Group, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781541489981
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Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer 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 World and the Forging of Christendom, a panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000; In the Shadow of the Sword, which covers the collapse of Roman and Persian power in the Near East, and the emergence of Islam; and Dynasty, a portrait of Rome's first imperial dynasty.
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