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Persian Fire:

The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
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Abacus, 20 juil. 2006 - 363 pages
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 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 free. Had the Greeks been defeated at Salamis, not only would the West have lost its first struggle for independence and survival, but it is unlikely that there would ever have been such and entity as the West at all.Tom Holland's brilliant new book describes the very first 'clash of Empires' between East and West. Once again he has found extraordinary parallels between the ancient world and our own. There is no competing popular book describing these events.

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Interesting topic, but the prose was sometimes a slog. - Goodreads
Loved this book and the insight in this topic. - Goodreads
Holland's writing style is both rich and engaging. - Goodreads

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Persian Fire is the second non-fiction book written by the popular historian Tom Holland. It is written in an easy-going narrative style that made his first book Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman ... Consulter l'avis complet

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I found this a fairly accessible of the history of early Greece. The technique of first describing the formation of the Persian Empire (Cyrus>Darius>Xerxes), then the development of the Spartan city ... Consulter l'avis complet

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À propos de l'auteur (2006)

Tom Holland received a double first from Cambridge. He has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for BBC Radio. He was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for RUBICON and won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History 2004.

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