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Tom Holland has gradually become one of my favorite authors, and one of the best working historians alive today. Though my beloved old history professor liked to refer to Augustus and the other imperatores of the late republic as "the Godfather and all those other little mafiosos" so perhaps I'm a little more receptive to some good-natured ribbing of the Princeps than the average bear. Dominion and In the Shadow of the Sword are also particularly good reads.
Lo and behold, he is not a formally trained historian, and actually got his start writing paranormal horror novels. Just goes to show how necessary the modern academy is to actually producing good, impactful, and readable history when a failed horror novelist with no credentials to speak of is eating their lunch.
I've enjoyed everything I've read by Tom Holland, he's great. Currently I have read Rubicon, Millennium (weirdly title changed in the US to The Forge Of Christendom), and Dynasty. Recently I was at the used bookstore and saw Dominion and Pax, and I'm really looking forward to both.
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