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Nick Holmes is a British author, podcaster and historian. Born in August, 1963, he was educated at Abingdon School and at St John's College Cambridge, where he was awarded an Exhibition for academic success in his History Tripos Exams. He also won a travel scholarship to follow the route of the First Crusade through Asia Minor in the Summer Vacation. He went on to study history at a postgraduate level at the London School of Economics.

He left academia in 1986, and spent the next three decades working in banking and stockbroking. He worked for a succession of leading banks, including Barclays, Citibank, HSBC, Lehman Brothers and Nomura. His last position was as a Managing Director at the French bank, Société Générale. During his career, he Nick Holmes is a British author, podcaster and historian. Born in August, 1963, he was educated at Abingdon School and at St John's College Cambridge, where he was awarded an Exhibition for academic success in his History Tripos Exams. He also won a travel scholarship to follow the route of the First Crusade through Asia Minor in the Summer Vacation. He went on to study history at a postgraduate level at the London School of Economics.

He left academia in 1986, and spent the next three decades working in banking and stockbroking. He worked for a succession of leading banks, including Barclays, Citibank, HSBC, Lehman Brothers and Nomura. His last position was as a Managing Director at the French bank, Société Générale. During his career, he won numerous awards as a leading stockmarket commentator, regularly voted among the top analysts in the City in the Extel and Institutional Investor surveys.

In 2021, he left the City to write full-time. He had already published a book about the Byzantine Empire's involvement with the First Crusade called 'The Byzantine World War' (Matador, 2019), which was well received. Frustrated with mainstream publishing, he set up his own publishing company in 2021, called Puttenham Press. From 2022 to 2026, he used this to publish his first series of six books, providing the most detailed account of the fall of the Roman Empire since Edward Gibbon's 'History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' written in the eighteenth century. This series has sold over 100,000 copies and is regularly listed as a bestseller in Roman, Byzantine and related categories on Amazon.

Since 2019, he has podcasted regularly on subjects related to his books. His first podcast was called 'Byzantium and the Crusades,' and contained content relevant to his first book. His second and current podcast is called "Echoes of Empires." Originally named "The Fall of the Roman Empire," it has been dowloaded over a million times and is listed by Listen Notes among the top 1.5% most popular podcasts in the world. Its subject range now extends beyond the Roman Empire to include the Dark Ages, the rise of Islam and the Crusades.

Nick Holmes is currently working on a new series of books focused on the Crusades from a global perspective, especially from the Byzantine, Islamic and Mongol angles. He is also working on his first work of fiction.

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	The Roman Revolution: Crisis and Christianity in Ancient Rome 4.26 avg rating — 1,185 ratings — published 2022 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fall of Rome: End of a Superpower 4.25 avg rating — 585 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Byzantine World War 4.17 avg rating — 391 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rome and Attila: Rome's Greatest Enemy 4.20 avg rating — 374 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Justinian's Empire: Triumph and Tragedy (The Fall of the Roman Empire #4) 4.34 avg rating — 160 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The End of Antiquity: The Last Days of Rome and the Rise of Islam (The Fall of the Roman Empire #5) 4.42 avg rating — 155 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Inheritors of Rome: The Rise of Europe and Islam (The Fall of the Roman Empire #6) 4.52 avg rating — 50 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trebizond 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Nick Holmes made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Linking a Book to a series topic " Hello, I wondered if you could link The Inheritors of Rome to my series called The Fall of the Roman Empire please? It's the sixth and final book in the ...more "
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Nick Holmes answered Gega Khavtasi's question: Hey Dr. Holmes, loved your books in Fall of Roman Empire series and was wondering if you plan writing similar series about Crusades, or any other major historical event(s)? Hi Gega, thanks so much for contacting me. I'm delighted you enjoyed my Roman books. I'm planning to start a new series on the Crusades next year! But in the meantime, I'm publishing my final Roman book in June. It will be called 'The Inheritors of R See Full Answer
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“At the heart of Byzantium was its capital, Constantinople, now modern Istanbul. Today it may look like a Turkish city but it contains an old city that was once a huge Roman metropolis and the largest city in Europe for nearly 1,000 years. Even today it has the remains of almost as many Roman buildings as Rome itself – towering walls and aqueducts, huge pillared underground cisterns, and churches that still dominate the modern skyline.”
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“and a powerful navy matched only by that of Ptolemaic Egypt.”
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“how did a small city state rise from total obscurity to become one of the greatest empires in history?”
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