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

Name: Persian Fire The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
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ISBN: 9780307279484

ISBN-10: 0307279480

ISBN-13: 9780307279484

Edition: 2007

Authors: Tom Holland

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In 480 B.C., 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 single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shattering ancient kingdoms, storming famous cities, putting together an empire which stretched from India to the shores of the Aegean. As a result of those conquests, Xerxes ruled as the most powerful man on the planet. Yet somehow, astonishingly, against the largest expeditionary force ever assembled, the Greeks of the mainland managed to hold out. The Persians were turned back. Greece remained…

Book details

List price: $21.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/12/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.22" wide x 7.94" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English