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

'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 . . . A profoundly important book' Christopher Hart, Sunday Times 'Beating a path from...

Accessible and exciting narrative history of the final 100 years of the Roman Republic. Over 17,000 copies of the hardback sold to date, with strong reviews across the media. von Holland, Tom

Tom Holland, author of RUBICON and PERSIAN FIRE, gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000. Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the...

Dominion von Holland, Tom

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...