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Old 06-04-2017, 11:48 PM   #410
sufue
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This isn't a great sale price ($6.99), but I've been looking for something on the Graeco-Persian Wars for a while, and Persian Fire, by Tom Holland is usually (per eReaderIQ) more than $11. So I'm probably going to bite...

Kindle US: https://www.amazon.com/Persian-Fire-...dp/B000RRA8JY/
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/persian-fire-1

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A "fresh...thrilling" (The Guardian) account of the Graeco-Persian Wars. In the fifth century B.C., 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.

The story of how their citizens took on the Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history. Tom Holland’s brilliant study of these critical Persian Wars skillfully examines a conflict of critical importance to both ancient and modern history.
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