The Battle for Global Empire and the End of the Ancient World
“A compelling detective story of the highest order; also a dazzlingly colourful journey into the world of late antiquity … A profoundly importanta book”
– Christopher Hart, Sunday Times
“Holland´s new book traces the process by which the world of the first millennium came to be dominated by on 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 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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