Persian Fire
The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent
$30.04
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
30 October 2006
Summary
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 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 mos…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349117171 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0349117179 |
| Author: | Tom Holland |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 30 October 2006 |
| Weight: | 375g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 36mm |
| Series: | Abacus |
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Gripping and authoritative … An awe-inspiring story of the struggle for freedom - Express
Confident, fluent and accessible, and with salutary lessons for our own times, this is history at its best - The TimesAbout The Author
Tom Holland
Tom Holland received a double first from Cambridge. He has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for BBC Radio. His scholarly style is perfect to reposition him as a writer of non-fiction as well as fiction.
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