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PERSIAN FIRE
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Author: Tom Holland
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Year published: 2005
Pagination: 418pp, 34 colour & b/w illustrations, maps
Condition: Card covers rubbed at edges. Good.
In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of Greece. Its success should have been a formality as, in the space of a single generation, the Persians had swept across the Near East to form an empire which stretched from India to the Aegean. Yet astonishingly, against the largest expeditionary force ever assembled, the Greeks managed to hold out and the Persians were turned back.