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...
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...
'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,...
A thrillingly panoramic and incredibly timely account of the rise of Islam, from the acclaimed author of Rubicon and Persian Fire. The evolution of the Arab empire is one of the supreme...
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...
At 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...
' The Book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me, was Rubicon ... This is narrative history at its best. Bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and struggle, brilliant oratory,...
Recounts the fall of the Roman Republic, tracing the events that marked the final century B. C. and discussing such topics as the rise of Alexandria and the contributions of such figures...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 432, Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing, Autor: Tom Holland, ISBN-13: 9781526668677, Data emiterii: 2025...
In 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...
In this dazzling portrait of Rome's first imperial dynasty, Tom Holland traces the astonishing century-long story of the rise and fall of the Julio-Claudians--Augustus, Tiberius,...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Copertă tare, Număr pagini: 624, Editura: Basic Books, Autor: Tom Holland, ISBN-13: 9780465093502, Data emiterii: 2019...
Detalii
V šestém století našeho letopočtu byl Blízký východ rozdělen na dvě mocenská centra, Persii a Byzanc. Už o sto let později se ale na jejich místo prodrala nová velmoc – arabská říše...
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...
Limba: engleză, Legare: Carte broșată, Număr pagini: 432, Editura: Penguin Publishing Group, Autor: Tom Holland, ISBN-13: 9780143139287, Data publicării: 2026...
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