Persian Fire - Tom Holland
The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
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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 p...
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[Auteur: Holland, Tom] [Pagina's: 418] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Abacus] [Jaar: 2007] [Titel: Persian Fire. The First World Empire, Battle for the West]