The book that rebuilt Rome: Tom Holland's bestselling narrative history book about the rise and fall of the Roman Empire is being reissued with a new cover alongside other classic titles from the Abacus list in our 40th Anniversary year
Tom Holland has won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2004; Persian Fire, which won the Anglo-Hellenic League's Runciman Award 2006; and the highly acclaimed Millennium. He has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for BBC Radio and his most recent book is In the Shadow of the Sword.
The book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me, was Rubicon ... This is narrative history at its best. Bloody and labyrinthine political intrigue and struggle, brilliant oratory, amazing feats of conquest and cruelty -- Ian McEwan Guardian A modern, well-paced and finely observed history which entertains as it informs Observer I owe a debt of gratitude to Tom Holland not just for reminding me of great figures who bestrode the Roman world - Pompey and Crassus, Cato, Cicero and Caesar - but for explaining what it was that made Rome the greatest superpower the world has known, why it lasted so long and what caused its eventual fall Daily Mail
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