A brilliant new account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC. It was 2,500 years ago that East and West first went to war. In the early 5th century BC, a global superpower was...

The Family That Transformed Rome 'A masterly account of this first wicked century of the Roman Empire' Adam Nicolson, Sunday Times 'Holland does not just tell the story of the reign of the Julio-Claudian family. He knits the history of...

The formation of England occurred against the odds: an island divided into rival kingdoms, under savage assault from Viking hordes. But, after King Alfred ensured the survival of Wessex and his son Edward expanded it, his grandson...

THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD'Definitely my book of the year' Bernard Cornwell'A rich and compelling history of Christendom . . . A masterpiece of scholarship and storytelling, Dominion surpasses Holland's earlier books in its sweeping...

The award-winning author of Rubicon and a historian of antiquity shows how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination and transformed the world, from Babylon to the Beatles, Saint Michael to #MeToo. von Holland, Tom

The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperbackThe formation of England happened against the odds - the division of the country into rival kingdoms, the assaults of the Vikings,...

In the individualistic West, it is commonly assumed the Bible is about me and my relationship with God when, as many now agree, it is addressed primarily to the believing community. Written for the non-academic reader, in this updated...

Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World von Holland, Tom

In 49 B.C., the seven hundred fifth year since the founding of Rome, Julius Caesar crossed a small border river called the Rubicon and plunged Rome into cataclysmic civil war. Tom Holland's enthralling account tells the story of Caesar's...

"In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire" von Tom Holland ist eine umfassende Analyse der Ursprünge des Islam und der Expansion des arabischen Reiches. Holland untersucht die politischen,...

"In The Shadow Of The Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World" von Tom Holland untersucht die transformative Periode der Spätantike, in der das Römische und das Persische Reich zusammenbrachen und den Weg für...

Im Schatten des Schwertes: Mohammed und die Entstehung des arabischen Weltreichs