Persian FireKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 12 juin 2007 - 464 pages A "fresh...thrilling" (The Guardian) account of the Graeco-Persian Wars. 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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... never be . The hatreds of Islam and Christendom , of East and West - where was the possible relevance in these ? The answer , of course , came a few weeks later , on September 11 , when nineteen hijackers incinerated themselves and ...
... never to use the fateful word again . That an American president might be less au fait with the subtleties of medieval history than a Saudi fanatic is hardly surprising , of course . " Why do they hate us ? " In the days and weeks that ...
... never have had the opportunity to develop their unique demo- cratic culture . Much that made Greek civilization distinctive would have been aborted . The legacy inherited by Rome and passed on to modern Europe would have been ...
... never dare to compare their combined glory with the glorious defeat of King Leonidas and his men at the defile of Thermopylae . " 10 Two and a half centuries later , Lord Byron , appalled that the Greece of his own day should be ...
... never know for sure what happened at a battle such as Salamis , when the sources on which any interpretation must depend manage to be simultaneously contradictory and full of holes : one might as well look to complete a half - broken ...
Table des matières
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SPARTA | 63 |
ATHENS | 99 |
SINGEING THE KING OF PERSIAS BEARD | 143 |
THE GATHERING STORM | 202 |
AT BAY | 260 |
NEMESIS | 307 |
Envoi | 371 |
Bibliography | 402 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial ... Tom Holland Aucun aperçu disponible - 2011 |
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West Tom Holland Aucun aperçu disponible - 2007 |