In The Shadow Of The Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World by Tom Holland

In The Shadow Of The Sword: The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World

Tom Holland

480 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative slow-paced
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In the 6th century AD, the Near East was divided between two venerable empires: the Persian and the Roman. A hundred years on and one had vanished forever, while the other seemed almost finished. Ruling in their place were the Arabs: an upheaval s...

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