books.google.fr - 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...http://books.google.fr/books/about/Persian_fire.html?hl=fr&id=WJPtAAAAMAAJ&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePersian fire
