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Persian Fire - The First World Empire and the Battle for the West written by Tom Holland performed by Michael Page on CD (Unabridged)£59.99

In the fifth century BC, 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.

Persian Fire written by Tom Holland performed by Andrew Sachs on CD (Abridged)

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ISBN: 9781405501163
Genre - Main: Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific: History
Duration: 360 mins
Length: Abridged
Author: Tom Holland
Performer 1: Andrew Sachs

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A Genius Performance by Andrew Sachs!

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. There is no other popular book describing these events.

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