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'Tom Holland is a gifted narrator who covers the field with panache and a rich fund of adjectives. His theme is darkness and light, and he achieves dramatic effect by intensifying both. Before reading MILLENNIUM, I would have said that to write a compelling narrative, for non-specialist readership, about this difficult and rebarbative period of our history was well-nigh impossible. Obviously it isn't. Tom Holland has written one which is based on wide reading in the contemporary sources and the rather impenetrable scholarly literature. He has good feel for the dramatic moment and the colourful personality, as well as explaining much that is opaque about the mentality of the period' --Jonathan Sumption in The Spectator --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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'MILLENNIUM ranges far in both time and space yet always returns to its central theme: the right ordering of Christendom. It is narrative history in the grand manner, written with the panache and confidence we associate with the great historians of the 18th and 19th centuries. Holland's research has been prodigious . . . It is a marvellous, enthralling read, and gives a lively sense of these turbulent centuries that were so crucial in the making of western civilisation. Read it, and be thrilled, amazed and enlightened' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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'Tom Holland is a gifted narrator who covers the field with panache and a rich fund of adjectives. His theme is darkness and light, and he achieves dramatic effect by intensifying both. Before reading MILLENNIUM, I would have said that to write a compelling narrative, for non-specialist readership, about this difficult and rebarbative period of our history was well-nigh impossible. Obviously it isn't. Tom Holland has written one which is based on wide reading in the contemporary sources and the rather impenetrable scholarly literature. He has good feel for the dramatic moment and the colourful personality, as well as explaining much that is opaque about the mentality of the period' --Jonathan Sumption in The Spectator --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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'MILLENNIUM ranges far in both time and space yet always returns to its central theme: the right ordering of Christendom. It is narrative history in the grand manner, written with the panache and confidence we associate with the great historians of the 18th and 19th centuries. Holland's research has been prodigious . . . It is a marvellous, enthralling read, and gives a lively sense of these turbulent centuries that were so crucial in the making of western civilisation. Read it, and be thrilled, amazed and enlightened' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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