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In The Shadow Of The Sword
Little, Brown Book Group 2012; Not AvailableTom Holland, author of Rubicon and Persian Fire , gives a thrilling panoramic account of the rise of Islam more...
Persian Fire
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.95In the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and men. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta, eccentric cities in a poor and mountainous backwater: Greece. The story of how their citizens took on... more...
Rubicon
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.95In 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 generation, witness to the twilight of the Republic and its bloody transformation into an empire. From Cicero,... more...
The Forge of Christendom
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 19.95At the approach of the first millennium, the Christians of Europe did not seem likely candidates for future greatness. Weak, fractured, and hemmed in by hostile nations, they saw no future beyond the widely anticipated Second Coming of Christ. But when the world did not end, the peoples of Western Europe suddenly found themselves with no choice but... more...
The Sleeper In The Sands
Little, Brown Book Group 2011; US$ 18.11Egypt, 1922: the Valley of the Kings. After years of fruitless labour, the archaeologist Howard Carter discovers a mysterious tomb, sealed and marked with a terrible curse. But what is the nature of the tomb's deadly secret? And what is the web of strange connections spreading back through millennia, to the very heart of Egypt's fabulous past? In a... more...
Rubicon
Little, Brown Book Group 2011; US$ 25.36The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness - the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe of its fall. It is a story of incomparable drama.... more...
Deliver Us From Evil
Little, Brown Book Group 2011; US$ 20.83Wiltshire, during the dying days of Oliver Cromwell's Republic. Robert Vaughan is the son of a Parliamentarian officer who is investigating a series of grisly murders which suggest a link with Satanic rituals at Stonehenge. The return of a notoriously wicked Cavalier, signalling the impending royalist restoration, leads to a terrible tragedy for... more...
The Bone Hunter
Little, Brown Book Group 2011; US$ 18.11?An heir of John Buchan and Rider Haggard, Holland is a storyteller, dealing in mysteries and marvels ? he holds the reader?s attention in an iron grip? DAILY TELEGRAPH 1878. The golden days of dinosaur discoveries. In the still-Wild West, fossils of a monstrous size are being uncovered by America's two greatest bone-hunters, Professors Marsh and... more...
Persian Fire
Little, Brown Book Group 2011; US$ 25.36In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shattering ancient kingdoms, storming famous cities,... more...
Millennium
Little, Brown Book Group 2011; US$ 25.36Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires of Byzantium or Islam, the splintered kingdoms on the edge of the Atlantic appeared impoverished, fearful and backward. But the anarchy of these years proved to be, not the portents of... more...









