In 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 INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Holland, who co-hosts the podcast The Rest Is History, is at his best when having fun with Rome's bloody history' The Times 'A...
The second book from the creators of the smash-hit number 1 podcast takes us on a dizzying A-Z through the past...
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Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars...
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'If great books encourage you to look at the world in an entirely new way, then Dominion is a very great book indeed ... Written with terrific learning, enthusiasm and good humour,...
Subtitled, The End Of The World & The Forging Of Christendom. An account of the birth of the new Western Europe, which emerged in the year 1000. But compared to the glittering empires...
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An extraordinary account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination, from the author of Rubicon. "A galloping tour of Christianity’s influence across the last 2,000...
Език: Английски език, Корици: С твърди корици, Брой страници: 512, Издателство: Basic Books, Автор: HOLLAND TOM, ISBN-13: 9780465093533, Дата на издаване: 2023...
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*NOW WITH A FUN PUB QUIZ* 'An idiosyncratic ride through history' Independent 'Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age'...
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,...
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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...
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...
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