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In the Shadow of the Sword

CD - unabridged
(15 CDs)
Product Number: CX1805
Released: 01 Sep, 2012
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781471203459
Narrator(s): Jonathan Keeble
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

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 so profound that it spelt, in effect, the end of the ancient world. Spanning Constantinople to the Arabian desert, and starring some of the most remarkable rulers who ever lived, In The Shadow of the Sword tells a story vivid with drama, horror and startling achievement.

Author(s): Tom Holland
Original Publish Date: 01 Sep, 2012

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Author(s): Tom Holland
Narrator(s): Jonathan Keeble
Product Number D1669
Released: 01 Dec, 2012
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781471210778

Professional reviews

"‘This is a book of extraordinary richness… a spell-bindingly brilliant multiple portrait of the triumph of monotheism in the ancient world’ INDEPENDENT ‘A brilliant tour de force of revisionist scholarship and [with] thrilling storytelling with a bloodspattered cast of swashbuckling tyrants, nymphomanaical empresses and visionary prophets… Unputdownable.’ SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE for THE TIMES ‘Every bit as thrilling a narrative history as Holland's previous works, In the Shadow of the Sword is also a profoundly important book. It makes public and popular what scholarship has been discovering for several decades now; and those discoveries suggest a wholesale revision of where Islam came from and what it is.' THE TIMES"

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