The First Clash: The Miraculous Greek Victory at Marathon and Its Impact on Western Civilization. This item is unavailable.The First Clash: The Miraculous Greek Victory at Marathon and Its Impact on Western Civilization

A scholarly chronicle of a pivotal fifth-century military campaign describes how Persian invaders were defeated by Greek defenders in the Battle of Marathon, in an account that reveals how an alternate outcome would have posed formidable historical consequences to western civilization.

Jim Lacey was an active-duty military officer for twelve years in the 82nd Airborne Division and the 101st Airborne Division. Lacey is currently a professor of strategy, war, and policy at the Marine War College, and an adjunct professor in the Johns Hopkins National Security Program. He also works as a consultant on a number of projects for the United States military. Lacey has written for several publications, including the New York Post and The New York Sun, appears regularly in Military History magazine, and was an embedded journalist for Time magazine during the invasion of Iraq.