EAN: 9780349122359

IN THE SHADOW OF THE SWORD - TOM HOLLAND KARTON...

'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 . . . A profoundly important
book' Christopher Hart  Sunday Times 'Beating a path from the height of the Persian Empire
established in AD 224 to the rise of the Abbasid caliphate in 750  Holland's new book traces
the process by which the world of the first millennium came to be dominated by one God  three
religions and an innumerable succession of emperors' Dan Jones  Daily Telegraph 'It is
difficult not to be bedazzled by a cast that includes ulcerated Christian holy men  Zoroastrian
priests obsessed with dental hygiene  demonic emperors  barbarians with self-inflicted cranial
deformities  perfumed Persian monarchs and Arab ambassadors stinking of camel' Richard Miles 
Financial Times 'I found myself amused  diverted and enchanted by turn . . . He writes with a
contagious conviction that history is not only a fascinating tale in itself but is a well-honed
instrument with which we can understand our neighbours and our own times  maybe even ourselves'
Barnaby Rogerson  Independent

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