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Le feu persan : Le premier Empire mondial et la conquête de l'ouest

Tom Holland
- Saint Simon
- Document
- 16 Janvier 2025
- 9782374350639
Magistral. Un récit puissant, écrit comme une épopée romanesque.
Au cinquième siècle avant J.-C., une superpuissance mondiale était déterminée à faire régner la vérité et l'ordre dans deux États proches. La superpuissance était la Perse, incomparablement riche en ambition, en or et en hommes. Les États terroristes étaient Athènes et Sparte, des villes excentriques situées dans un arrière-pays pauvre et montagneux. L'histoire de la lutte de leurs citoyens contre le Grand Roi de Perse, qui leur a permis de sauver non seulement eux-mêmes mais aussi la civilisation occidentale, est aussi passionnante et fatidique que n'importe quel épisode de l'histoire. Le brillant récit de Tom Holland sur ces guerres perses raconte habilement un conflit d'une importance capitale pour l'Histoire ancienne et moderne du monde.
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DYNASTY - THE RISE AND FALL OF THE HOUSE OF CAESAR

Tom Holland
- Abacus
- 2 Juin 2016
- 9780349123837
'This is a wonderful, surging narrative - a brilliant and meticulous synthesis of the ancient sources . . . This is a story that should be read by anyone interested in history, politics or human nature - and it has never been better told' - Boris Johnson, Mail on Sunday Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome was drowned in blood. So terrible were the civil wars that the Roman people finally came to welcome the rule of an autocrat who could give them peace. ' Augustus,' their new master called himself: 'The Divinely Favoured One'. The lurid glamour of the dynasty founded by Augustus has never faded. No other family can compare for sheer unsettling fascination with its gallery of leading characters. Tiberius, the great general who ended up a bitter recluse, notorious for his perversions; Caligula, the master of cruelty and humiliation who rode his chariot across the sea; Agrippina, the mother of Nero, manoeuvering to bring to power the son who would end up having her murdered; Nero himself, racing in the Olympics, marrying a eunuch, and building a pleasure palace over the fire-gutted centre of his capital. Now, in the sequel to Rubicon , Tom Holland gives a dazzling portrait of Rome's first imperial dynasty. Dynasty traces the full astonishing story of its rule of the world: both the brilliance of its allure, and the blood-steeped shadows cast by its crimes. Ranging from the great capital rebuilt in marble by Augustus to the dank and barbarian-haunted forests of Germany, it is populated by a spectacular cast: murderers and metrosexuals, adulterers and druids, scheming grandmothers and reluctant gladiators. Dynasty is the portrait of a family that transformed and stupefied Rome.
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Les drôles histoires de l'histoire : De Néron à Trump

Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook
- Saint Simon
- Document
- 19 Septembre 2024
- 9782374350646
Le podcast à l'origine de ce livre est suivi par plus de 150 millions d'auditeurs dans le monde
Ce best-seller mondial est un voyage dans le passé, d'Alexandre le Grand au Top 10 des présidents français, de Tolkien à la guerre des Deux-Roses ou aux 10 meilleurs eunuques... Tom Holland et Dominic Sandbrook se penchent sur les moments les plus curieux de l'Histoire et répondent à des questions auxquelles nous n'avions pas pensé :
- La guerre de Troie a-t-elle vraiment eu lieu ?
- Quelle a été la fête la plus désastreuse de l'Histoire ?
- Pourquoi Jules César a-t-il été assassiné ?
- Le monstre du Loch Ness existe-t-il vraiment ?
- Pourquoi les nazis croyaient-ils descendre de l'Atlantide ?
Qu'il s'agisse de classer les maîtresses les plus illustres, les pigeons les plus célèbres de l'histoire (" Cher Ami " fut un héros méconnu de la Seconde Guerre mondiale) ou de débattre de la signification du passé, il n'y a rien de trop grand ou de trop petit pour Tom et Dominic. Faites donc couler votre bain de lait égyptien, enfilez vos meilleures sandales spartiates et préparez-vous à un voyage sur les routes et les chemins de traverse de la grande Histoire.
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À l'ombre de l'épée

Tom Holland
- Tempus / Perrin
- Tempus
- 25 Février 2021
- 9782262086619
Comprendre les conditions historiques de la naissance de l'islam est en lien direct avec ce qui l'anime encore aujourd'hui. Aussi complexe que soit l'émergence de l'Empire arabe au VIIe siècle, berceau de la nouvelle religion, sa compréhension autorise un questionnement salutaire sur cette puissante civilisation, faite d'une multitude d'influences diverses. Loin des querelles théologiques qui entourent ces sujets, l'historien Tom Holland nous convie à un récit novateur, étayé par une documentation impressionnante.
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Les Chrétiens ; comment ils ont changé le monde

Tom Holland
- Saint Simon
- 7 Novembre 2019
- 9782374350196
Le christianisme est à la fois le legs le plus durable de la civilisation antique et l'événement le plus transformateur de l'histoire de l'Occident. Aujourd'hui même, ceux qui abandonnent en nombre croissant la foi de leurs ancêtres et considèrent la religion comme pure superstition en portent toujours la marque distinctive.
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THE REST IS HISTORY RETURNS ; AN A-Z OF HISTORICAL CURIOSITIES

Tom Holland, Dominic Sandbrook
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- 8 Mai 2025
- 9781526668677
From the podcast legends who brought you The Rest is History comes The Rest is History Returns!

This time Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook bring you an alphabetical miscellany, taking on some of history''s best and most bizarre moments. Charge forth against the traitors of the American Revolution, journey through Baghdad to discover the origins of the Arabian Nights and head to Sicily to witness the first face-off between Carthage and Rome.

Along the way you''ll find the answers to questions like:
- Who was Jesus''s wife?
- What would it have been like to live-tweet through the eruption of Vesuvius?
- Why did the Romans inspire so much American science fiction?
- Which Mitford sister tried to seduce her girlish crush, Adolf Hitler?
- Who are history''s top 10 monkeys?
- Was Henry V''s great-grandfather, Edward III, the biggest ''lad'' in British history?

But that''s not all - this book also includes puzzles and a pub quiz. So dust off your tricorne hat, grab your lasso and get ready for a rollicking rollercoaster through the past . . .

''The world''s most successful history podcast . . . Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age'' The Times
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In the shadow of the sword - the battle for global empire and the end of the ancient world

Tom Holland
- Abacus
- 4 Avril 2013
- 9780349122359
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.
In The Shadow of the Sword, Tom Holland explores how this came about. Spanning Constantinople to the Arabian desert, and starring some of the most remarkable rulers who ever lived, he tells a story vivid with drama, horror and startling achievement.
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PAX ; WAR AND PEACE IN ROME'S GOLDEN AGE

Tom Holland
- Abacus
- 4 Juillet 2024
- 9780349141213
Holland is a master of immediacy... [a] fascinating time, skilfully sparked into life>
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Millennium - the end of the world and the forging of christendom

Tom Holland
- Abacus
- 2 Juillet 2009
- 9780349119724
* Tom Holland, author of RUBICON and PERSIAN FIRE, gives a thrilling panoramic account of the birth of the new Western Europe in the year 1000
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Rubicon - the triumph and tragedy of the roman republic

Tom Holland
- Abacus
- 10 Juin 2004
- 9780349115634
'Rubicon' is a narrative history which provides bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and struggle, oratory and amazing feats of conquest and cruelty.
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DOMINION ; THE MAKING OF THE WESTERN MIND

Tom Holland
- Abacus
- 6 Août 2020
- 9780349141206
Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition, remain recognisably its heirs. Seen close-up, the division between a sceptic and a believer may seem unbridgeable. Widen the focus, though, and Christianity's enduring impact upon the West can be seen in the emergence of much that has traditionally been cast as its nemesis: in science, in secularism, and yes, even in atheism. That is why Dominion will place the story of how we came to be what we are, and how we think the way that we do, in the broadest historical context. Ranging in time from the Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC to the on-going migration crisis in Europe today, and from Nebuchadnezzar to the Beatles, it will explore just what it was that made Christianity so revolutionary and disruptive; how completely it came to saturate the mind-set of Latin Christendom; and why, in a West that has become increasingly doubtful of religion's claims, so many of its instincts remain irredeemably Christian. The aim is twofold: to make the reader appreciate just how novel and uncanny were Christian teachings when they first appeared in the world; and to make ourselves, and all that we take for granted, appear similarly strange in consequence. We stand at the end-point of an extraordinary transformation in the understanding of what it is to be human: one that can only be fully appreciated by tracing the arc of its parabola over millennia.
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à l'ombre de l'épée ; naissance de l'islam et grandeur de l'empire arabe

Tom Holland
- Saint Simon
- 21 Septembre 2017
- 9782374350011
Dans À l'ombre de l'épée, Tom Holland, spécialiste de l'Antiquité grecque, perse et romaine, raconte comment l'Islam s'est imposé au VIIe siècle comme une nouvelle puissance. Cette vaste fresque dépeint l'émergence de la civilisation islamique arabe, laquelle porta un coup fatal aux romains et aux perses.

Fort de ses préceptes et de ses fondements, l'Islam s'est-il d'emblée imposé comme une religion conquérante ou s'est-il progressivement développé sur le terreau de l'Antiquité ? À ces questions, Tom Holland répond avec brio, d'une écriture éloquente, vive et ciselée, mêlant sens du récit, tension dramatique, et une érudition dramaturgique.

La plus ancienne biographie du Prophète date de deux siècles après la mort de Mahomet, constate l'auteur. D'où les interrogations planant sur l'exactitude historique des faits relatés. Sans manichéisme aucun, Tom Holland fait vivre ces figures qui ont marqué l'Histoire, laquelle s'inscrit dans une autre plus vaste, celle des monothéismes du monde moderne.
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The sleeper in the sands

Tom Holland
- Little Brown Uk
- 1 Avril 2001
- 9780349112237
Egypt, 1922: the Valley of the Kings. After years of fruitless labour, the archaeologist Howard Carter discovers a mysterious tomb, sealed and marked with a terrible curse. But what is the nature of the tomb's deadly secret? And what is the web of strange connections spreading back through millennia, to the very heart of Egypt's fabulous past? In a glorious Arabian Nightmare of lost cities, treacherous priests and daring archaeologists, an ancient civilisation shimmers into life; colourful, magical, and unutterably strange.

'True adventure stories are all too scarce nowadays. And adventure stories that have the capacity to make the reader think and wonder are an even rarer commodity. Tom Holland's latest novel manages both with tremendous verve... a galloping page-turner' DAILY TELEGRAPH
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PERSIAN FIRE - THE FIRST WORLD EMPIRE, BATTLE FOR THE WEST

Tom Holland
- Little Brown UK
- 30 Septembre 2005
- 9780316731027
A brilliant new account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC.
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Persian fire - the first world empire and the battle for the west

Tom Holland
- Abacus
- 3 Août 2006
- 9780349117171
A brilliant new account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC.
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Rubicon

Tom Holland
- Abacus
- 4 Avril 2013
- 9780349138954
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La malediction des pharaons

Tom Holland
- Pocket
- Terreur Pocket
- 11 Janvier 2001
- 9782266110198
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Athelstan (penguin monarchs)

Tom Holland
- VIKING ADULT
- 15 Juin 2016
- 9780241187814
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DELIVER US FROM EVIL

Tom Holland
- Abacus
- 6 Novembre 2008
- 9780349121673
Wiltshire, during the dying days of Oliver Cromwell's Republic. Robert Vaughan is the son of a Parliamentarian officer who is investigating a series of grisly murders which suggest a link with Satanic rituals at Stonehenge. The return of a notoriously wicked Cavalier, signalling the impending royalist restoration, leads to a terrible tragedy for the Vaughans. Robert's flight from his violent, terrifying past leads him to Restoration London, where he works as scribe for Milton, and where he survives the Plague and the Great Fire. But Robert is led along a dark path, to vampirism and beyond, as he devotes himself to gaining the powers that will enable him to fight an evil killer of seemingly satanic powers. He will travel the globe, from the ancient ghetto of Prague to the virgin forest of the New World, as he aims to gain revenge on those who betrayed him.
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DOMINION - 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION - THE MAKING OF THE WESTERN MIND

Tom Holland
- Abacus
- 9 Février 2023
- 9780349145273
Definitely my book of the year>
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THE REST IS HISTORY - THE OFFICIAL BOOK FROM THE MAKERS OF THE HIT PODCAST

Tom Holland, Dom Sandbrook
- BLOOMSBURY
- 26 Octobre 2023
- 9781526667748
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys . . . There''s a new history book in town. Pre-order your copy now.

From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past - from Alexander the Great to Agatha Christie, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation''s favourite historians Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook take on the most curious moments in history, answering the questions we didn''t even think to ask:

- Did the Trojan War actually happen?
- What was the most disastrous party in history?
- Was Richard Nixon more like Caligula or Claudius?
- How did a hair appointment almost blow Churchill''s cover?
- Why did the Nazis believe they were descended from Atlantis?

Whether it is sending historical figures to Casa Amor in a series of Love Island, ranking history''s most famous eunuchs and pigeons (including Winky, the unsung hero of the Second World War), or debating the meaning of greatness, there is nothing too big or too small for Tom and Dominic to unpick.

So run your Egyptian milk bath, strap up your best Spartan sandals, and prepare for a journey down the highways and byways of the human past. . .>
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