Persian Fire - The First World Empire, Battle for the West (Holland Tom)(Paperback)

In his award-winning book PERSIAN FIRETom Holland gives us a brilliant account of the world’s first clash of civilisations as the Persians met the Greeks in 480 BC. When Xerxes, King of Persia attacked Greece the result of the invasion should have been a formality. Decisive, rapid, spectacular victory was surely theirs by right – after all in the space of a generation the Persian army had swept across the Near East, putting together an empire which stretched from India to the shores of the Aegean. As a result Xerxes was revered as a god and considered invincible. Yet somehow, astonishingly, th Persian Fire - Tom Holland od authora Tom Holland a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus.cz
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