Xerxes: A Persian Life by Richard Stoneman

Xerxes: A Persian Life

Richard Stoneman

288 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative medium-paced
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Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486–465 B.C., has gone down in history as an angry tyrant full of insane ambition. The stand of Leonidas and the 300 against his army at Thermopylae is a byword for courage, while the failure of Xerxes...

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