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Empires clash, faith transforms: a new world forged in blood.

In The Shadow Of The Sword

The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World

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    592 pages

  • Release Date

    29 April 2013

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Summary

In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two great empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on, and one had vanished for ever, while the other was a dismembered, bleeding trunk. In their place, a new superpower had arisen: the empire of the Arabs. So profound was this upheaval that it spelled, in effect, the end of the ancient world.

But the changes that marked the period were more than merely political or even cultural: there was also a transformation of hu…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780349122359
ISBN-10:0349122350
Author:Tom Holland
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Abacus
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:592
Release Date:29 April 2013
Weight:492g
Dimensions:195mm x 128mm x 39mm
Series:Abacus
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Critics Review

A stunning blockbuster - Independent - Robert Fisk

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 - Sunday Times - Christopher Hart

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 - The Times - Simon Sebag Montefiore

About The Author

Tom Holland

Tom Holland received a double first from Cambridge. He has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for BBC Radio. His scholarly style is perfect to reposition him as a writer of non-fiction as well as fiction.

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