Persian Fire: The First World Empire- 9780307279484, paperback, Tom Holland
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Artist
- Holland, Tom
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307279484
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307279480
ISBN-13
9780307279484
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57067676
Product Key Features
Book Title
Persian Fire : the First World Empire and the Battle for the West
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Civilization, Ancient / General, Military / Ancient
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
13.2 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Ambitious....a sweeping popular account that seems destined to become a classic." The Seattle Times "Excellent. . . . There is an even-handedness in Holland's treatment of both Greek and Persian cultural riches that is rare in popular accounts of these wars." Sunday Times "Holland has a rare eye for detail, drama, and the telling anecdote. . . . A book as spirited and engaging as Persian Fire deserves to last." The Telegraph, "Ambitious....a sweeping popular account that seems destined to become a classic." - The Seattle Times "Excellent. . . . There is an even-handedness in Holland's treatment of both Greek and Persian cultural riches that is rare in popular accounts of these wars." - Sunday Times "Holland has a rare eye for detail, drama, and the telling anecdote. . . . A book as spirited and engaging as Persian Fire deserves to last." - The Telegraph, Praise from the United Kingdom forPersian Fire "Excellent . . . Holland is a cool-headed historian who writes here no less authoritatively and engagingly on classical Greece than he did on ancient Rome in his last book,Rubicon. . . There is an even-handedness in Holland's treatment of both Greek and Persian cultural riches that is rare in popular accounts of these wars." -Mary Beard,Times Literary Supplement "It is . . . a testament to Holland's superlative powers as a narrative historian that he brings this tumultuous, epoch-making period dazzlingly to life, and makes the common reader familiar again with one of the most thrilling periods in world history . . . [Holland] has conquered this new territory with more power and panache than any platform-heeled King of Kings." -William Napier,The Independent "A book as spirited and engaging asPersian Firedeserves to last . . . [Holland's] real achievement is to have turned the stuff of public-school translation exercises into vibrant, bloodthirsty popular history, told with a rich sense of irony and irresistible narrative timing." -Dominic Sandbrook,The Telegraph "[Persian Fire] is an unequivocal argument for the relevance of ancient history. As we stand at the start of a century that many would like to see as a time when civilizations are doomed to clash, Holland writes of a war between East and West which predates the Crusades, which is older than Islam or Christianity . . . fascinating." -Geraldine Beddell,The Observer Praise forRubicon "[A] book that really held me, in fact, obsessed me . . . Narrative history at its best." -Ian McEwan, author ofAtonementandSaturday,The GuardianBooks of the Year "Stunning . . .Rubiconis unusually well-informed by any standard and impressive for its large but not overwhelming cast of characters . . . Holland keeps his narrative moving at chariot-race speed." -Newsday "A fascinating picture of Roman city life . . . In every aspect of this story, Holland expertly makes the Romans, so alien and yet so familiar, relevant to us." -Los Angeles Times "[Tom] Holland has a sense for the golden moment, is a widely read intellectual, shows a keen wit-and the result is an engaging story that the general public will find worth relearning . . . As a classically trained nonacademic he writes far better than most of those who know more than he about the ancient world . . . [He] captures the previous age in a riveting story, well told inPersian Fire." -Victor Davis Hanson,Times Literary Supplement, "Ambitious....a sweeping popular account that seems destined to become a classic." -The Seattle Times "Excellent. . . . There is an even-handedness in Holland's treatment of both Greek and Persian cultural riches that is rare in popular accounts of these wars." -Sunday Times "Holland has a rare eye for detail, drama, and the telling anecdote. . . . A book as spirited and engaging asPersian Firedeserves to last." -The Telegraph, "Ambitious....a sweeping popular account that seems destined to become a classic." -- The Seattle Times "Excellent. . . . There is an even-handedness in Holland's treatment of both Greek and Persian cultural riches that is rare in popular accounts of these wars." -- Sunday Times "Holland has a rare eye for detail, drama, and the telling anecdote. . . . A book as spirited and engaging as Persian Fire deserves to last." -- The Telegraph
Dewey Decimal
935/.05
Synopsis
In the fifth century B.C., 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 Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history. Tom Holland's brilliant study of these critical Persian Wars skillfully examines a conflict of critical importance to both ancient and modern history., A "sweeping popular account" ( The Seattle Times ) of how Athens and Sparta withstood an assault from the Persian Empire in the cradle of Western civilization, from the acclaimed author of Rubicon and co-host of the hit podcast The Rest Is History "Excellent. . . . There is an even handedness in Holland's treatment of both Greek and Persian cultural riches that is rare in popular accounts of these wars." -- The Sunday Times (London) In the fifth century B.C., 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 Great King of Persia, and thereby saved not only themselves but Western civilization as well, is as heart-stopping and fateful as any episode in history. Tom Holland's brilliant study of these critical Persian Wars skillfully examines a conflict of critical importance to both ancient and modern history.
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