Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

Tom Holland

418 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory - rapid, spectacular victory - had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a singl...

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