Persian Fire (Signed 1st Edition)

Tom Holland

ISBN 10: 0316726648 / ISBN 13: 9780316726641

Published by Little Brrown, 2005

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Red boards with gilt titles to the spine. Clean pages. Firm binding. Dust jacket is not price clipped. Signed by the author to the title page. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers. Seller Inventory # 17756

Bibliographic Details

Title: Persian Fire (Signed 1st Edition)

Publisher: Little Brrown

Publication Date: 2005

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed By Author

Edition: 1st Edition.

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Synopsis:

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 planet. Yet somehow, astonishingly, against the largest expeditionary force ever assembled, the Greeks of the mainland managed to hold out. The Persians were turned back. Greece remained free. Had the Greeks been defeated at Salamis, not only would the West have lost its first struggle for independence and survival, but it is unlikely that there would ever have been such and entity as the West at all.

Tom Holland's brilliant new book describes the very first 'clash of Empires' between East and West. Once again he has found extraordinary parallels between the ancient world and our own. There is no competing popular book describing these events.

Review:

Gripping and authoritative ... An awe-inspiring story of the struggle for freedom (Express)

Confident, fluent and accessible, and with salutary lessons for our own times, this is history at its best (The Times)