- genre:history, Achaemenid Empire, Salamis, Battle of (Greece : 480 B.C.) fast (OCoLC)fst01103757, Salamis, Battle of, Greece, 480 B.C.
In 480 B.C.E., 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.
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- Author
- Tom Holland
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 418
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Little, Brown, Doubleday
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307386984
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- genre:history
- Achaemenid Empire
- Salamis, Battle of (Greece : 480 B.C.) fast (OCoLC)fst01103757
- Salamis, Battle of, Greece, 480 B.C.
- Persian Wars (Greece : 500-449 B.C.) fast (OCoLC)fst01353977
- History
- Greece, history, persian wars, 500-449 b.c.
- Iran, history, to 640
- Nonfiction
- Salamine, Bataille de, 480 av. J.-C
- Histoire
- Perzische oorlogen
Tom Holland is an award-winning historian, biographer and broadcaster. He is the author of Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, won the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award in 2006; Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, a panoramic account of the two centuries on either side of the apocalyptic year 1000; In the Shadow of the Sword, which covers the collapse of Roman and Persian power in the Near East, and the emergence of Islam; and Dynasty, a portrait of Rome's first imperial dynasty.
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