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In 480 BC, 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. 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. As a result of those conquests, Xerxes ruled as the most powerful man on the planet. Yet somehow, astonishingly, against the largest expeditionary force ever assembled, the Greeks of the mainland managed to hold out. The Persians were turned back. Greece remained free. Had the Greeks been defeated 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 and entity as the West at all. Tom Holland's brilliant new book describes the very first 'clash of Empires' between East and West. Once again he has found extraordinary parallels between the ancient world and our own. There is no competing popular book describing these events.
Holland's new work describes the very first clash of empires between East and West. Revealing extraordinary parallels between the ancient world and the present, this history takes in the entire sweep of the Persian Wars. In the fifth century B.C., a global superpower was determined to bring truth an
A thrillingly panoramic and incredibly timely account of the rise of Islam, from the acclaimed author of Rubicon and Persian Fire . The evolution of the Arab empire is one of the supreme narratives of ancient history, a story dazzlingly rich in drama, character, and achievement. In this exciting and
Scriitorul și istoricul Tom Holland se întoarce la istoria romană și la povestea din Rubicon – cartea sa minunat și inteligent scrisă și documentată despre căderea Republicii Romane – cu Dinastia, o poveste fascinantă despre domnia primilor cinci împărați romani. Dinastia continuă povestea din Rubic
O istorie minunată, plină de spirit și de informații, a uneia dintre cele mai mari civilizații ale umanității și a evenimentelor și popoarelor care au dus la transformarea ei din republică în imperiu. Într-o dimineață întunecată de ianuarie, Iuliu Cezar, guvernatorul Galiei, a pornit călare împreună
