Title:
Persian fire : the first world empire and the battle for the West / Tom Holland.
Author:
Holland, Tom.
General Notes:
It was 2500 years ago that East and West first went to war. Early 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, whose kings had founded the first world empire, incomparably rich in ambition, gold, and men. The terrorist states were Athens and Sparta, eccentric cities in a poor mountainous backwater, Greece. The story of how their citizens took on the most powerful man on the planet and defeated him is as heart-stopping as in any episode in history.
Publisher:
Little Brown,
Publication Place:
[Boston] :
ISBN:
0316731021 (pbk.)
9780316731027 (pbk.)
Subject:
Salamis, Battle of -- 480 B.C.
Iran -- History -- To 640.
Greece -- History -- Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C.
Physical Description:
xxiii, 418 p. : ill., maps ;
Publication Date:
2005.
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