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

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

Holland, Tom

Paperback

Ancient GreeceGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryGeneral Military History

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 0307279480
ISBN13: 9780307279484
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: Jun 12 2007
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.10
Language: English
A sweeping popular account (The Seattle Times) of how Athens and Sparta withstood an assault from the Persian Empire in the cradle of Western civilization, from the acclaimed author of Rubicon and co-host of the hit podcast The Rest Is History

Excellent. . . . There is an even handedness in Holland's treatment of both Greek and Persian cultural riches that is rare in popular accounts of these wars. --The Sunday Times (London)

In the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth and order to what it regarded as two terrorist states. The superpower was Persia, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and men. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta, eccentric cities in a poor and mountainous backwater: Greece.

The story of how their citizens took on the Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history. Tom Holland's brilliant study of these critical Persian Wars skillfully examines a conflict of critical importance to both ancient and modern history.

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