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Persian Fire
- The First World Empire, Battle for the West
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows, Tom Holland
- Length: 15 hrs and 48 mins
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Persian Fire
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Publisher's Summary
'Magisterial... told with great authority and a novelistic colour and verve'
Books of the Year, Independent
'Holland has a rare eye for detail, drama and the telling anecdote'
Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph
'An unequivocal argument for the relevance of ancient history'
Observer
'Holland brings this tumultuous, epoch-making period dazzlingly to life'
William Napier, Independent on Sunday
In 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.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-01-2024
Loved the retelling of historical fact in an easy listening and exciting manner
Exciting and easily grasp presentation of historical fact. I loved the way Holland gives background detail and perhaps some minor Herodotus like personal perspective in the building of the the drama that was the Persian War. Outstanding.
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- CAJowett
- 12-08-2021
The story you think you know
Well read, well paced. Great story telling.
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Fantastic insight into the story you think you know.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-11-2019
Excellent
Loved this book, however, I think the title is somewhat misleading. The majority of the book deals with Greek history as it relates to the Persian wars, I would have liked it to deal more with Persian history as it relates to the Greek wars. Subtle, but important difference.
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- George (Ben) Collin
- 07-05-2023
Excellent
Dramatic reflection of scholarly history. Lively portrait of bygone grandeur, ancient attitudes and foundational actions.
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- 24-04-2020
not what it says on the box.
This isn't, as the description goes, a history of the Persian Empire. Rather, it is another history of the Greco/Persian wars with a bit at the start about the origin of the Persian Empire. Darius' exploits in India get two lines. The campaign against the Scythians less than a paragraph. The book ends generations before the end of the Persian Empire.
Holland does an excellent job crafting a gripping narrative, but this book is not as described.
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