The Harvest of War: Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis: The Epic Battles that Saved Democracy by Stephen P. Kershaw

The Harvest of War: Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis: The Epic Battles that Saved Democracy

Stephen P. Kershaw

480 pages • first pub 2022 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Persia wants revenge. The next Persian king, Xerxes, assembles a vast multinational force, constructs a bridge of boats across the Hellespont, digs a canal through the Mount Athos peninsula, and bears down on Greece. Trusting in their "wooden wall...

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