عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
DS281 .H65 2005
DS281
.
H65
2005
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
0385513119
(Number (ISBN
9780385513111
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b711841
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Persian fire :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
the first world empire and the battle for the West /
First Statement of Responsibility
Tom Holland.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Doubleday,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
©2005.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xxiii, 418 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, maps ;
Dimensions
25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-411) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Acknowledgments -- List of maps -- Note on proper names -- Preface -- The Khorasan Highway -- Babylon -- Sparta -- Athens -- Singeing the King of Persia's beard -- The gathering storm -- At bay -- Nemesis -- Envoi -- Timeline -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
0
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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. 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. Xerxes ruled as the most powerful man on the planet. Yet somehow, astonishingly, against the largest expeditionary force ever assembled, the Greeks managed to hold out. 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. Historian Holland combines scholarly rigor with novelistic depth and finds extraordinary parallels between the ancient world and our own.--From publisher description.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Persian fire.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Greece-- History-- Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C.
Iran-- History-- To 640.
Perserkriege
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Greece, History, Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C.
Iran, History, To 640.
Greece.
Iran.
0
0
7
7
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
935/
.
05
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
DS281
Book number
.
H65
2005
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
6
,
12
System Code
ssgn
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Holland, Tom.
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20201208022801.0
ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Electronic name
مطالعه متن کتاب [Book]
Y
