Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland

Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

Tom Holland with Mark Meadows (Narrator)

15 hours, 48 minutes first pub 2005 (view editions) user-added

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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In 480 B.C., 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 ...

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