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041 _aeng
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100 _aHolland, Tom
245 0 _a Persian fire the first world empire and the battle for the West
_cTom Holland
260 _bHachette
_c2005
_aLondon
300 _a XXV, 418 p.
_bcol.ill.
_c22 cm.
504 _aBib and Ref
520 _aIn the fifth century BC, 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 most powerful man on the planet is as heart-stopping as any episode in history.
650 _aHistory
942 _cENGLISH
999 _c567061
_d567061