Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, author and presenter of the acclaimed podcast "The Rest is History". He is the author of Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History; Persian Fire, his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, won the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award in 2006. Tom Holland is the presenter of BBC Radio 4’s “Making History”, and he has written and presented a number of TV documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4.