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...

"Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar" von Tom Holland ist ein historisches Sachbuch, das die Geschichte der frühen römischen Kaiser beleuchtet. Es beginnt mit Augustus, dem ersten Kaiser Roms, und verfolgt die Entwicklungen...

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,...