![]() ![]() ![]() Tom Holland’s brilliant new book describes the very first “clash of Empires” between East and West. Had the Greeks been defeated in the epochal naval battle 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 an entity as the West at all. Yet somehow, astonishingly, against the largest expeditionary force ever assembled, the Greeks of the mainland managed to hold out. ![]() As a result of those conquests, Xerxes ruled as the most powerful man on the planet. 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. For seventy years, victory–rapid, spectacular victory–had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. Its success should have been a formality. In 480 B.C., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. You can read this before Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West written by Tom Holland which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West by Tom Holland ![]()
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