With one of the largest book inventories in the world, find the book you are looking for. He has written and presented a number of TV documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4, on subjects ranging from religion to dinosaurs. Login; Registration; Donate; Books; Add book; Categories; Most Popular; Recently Added; Z-Library Project; Top Z-Librarians; Blog; Part of Z-Library project. Use the Alibris Advanced Search Page to narrow your search criteria and find your item! Classics professor Emily Wilson, reviewing it for The Guardian, was critical of the "overblown style" of Holland's writing and the narrative's lurid details, saying of the book "this is ancient Rome for the age of Donald Trump". © 2020  [15], Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (2005) is an account of the 5th-century B.C. "[80], Holland married Sadie, now a midwife,[2] on July 31, 1993. Alibris has millions of books at amazingly low prices. Ebooks library. [68][69], In 2019, Holland was a signatory on a public letter to The Guardian denouncing Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the Labour Party and candidate for Prime Minister, for alleged antisemitism. It was re-titled Lord of the Dead: The Secret History of Byron for the 1996 U.S. release. In 2017, he wrote an article for The Spectator in which he implored the Western world not to forget the Yazidi.

In 2014, ISIS forces swept into the city and killed most of the Yazidi men and old women, taking the young women as sex slaves and the young boys to train as ISIS soldiers. [55], Writing on the Channel 4 website, Holland responded to the criticism by saying that the origins of Islam is a "legitimate subject of historical enquiry" and that his documentary was "a historical endeavour and is not a critique of one of the major monotheistic religions".

In the Shadow of the Sword is a history book charting the origins of Islam.The author, Tom Holland, had previously written two works on ancient history: Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic, which charted the fall of the Roman Republic, and Persian Fire, which is an account of the Greco-Persian Wars during the 5th century BC. [35][61], He is a staunch opponent of the proposed Stonehenge road tunnel and other development projects that threaten landscapes around Britain's historic sites and since 2018 has been president of the Stonehenge Alliance, a group dedicated to stopping construction of the tunnel (or at least convincing the government to redesign it from the planned 1.8 miles. So does Alibris. [10], Holland stayed with the supernatural horror genre for his next few books, continuing to use his knowledge of ancient cultures and settings. [1], He is the great-nephew of Olympic cyclist Charles Holland,[82] the first Englishman to complete the Tour de France.

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