Persian Fire

Download or read book Persian Fire written by Tom Holland and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "fresh...thrilling" (The Guardian) account of the Graeco-Persian Wars. 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.

Download or read book Gates of Fire written by Steven Pressfield and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2007-01-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Steven Pressfield brings the battle of Thermopylae to brilliant life.”—Pat Conroy At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army. Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history—one that would not end until the rocks were awash with blood, leaving only one gravely injured Spartan squire to tell the tale. . . .

Download or read book Persian Fire and Steel written by Manouchehr Moshtagh Khorasani and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Summary of Tom Holland's Persian Fire written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-04-04T22:59:00Z with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Assyrians, a people of the flat alluvial plains, were city-dwellers who had spread terror and extermination as far as Egypt. They had always seen it as their duty to flatten resistance in the wilds beyond their borders. #2 The Zagros Mountains were a source of wealth for the Assyrians. The mountains were a mishmash of different peoples, Aryans and aboriginals, with the Medes ruled by a quarrelsome multitude of petty chieftains. Foreign occupation by imposing a unitary authority on the region began to encourage the fractious tribes to cohere. #3 The Median Empire, ruled by Astyages, was based around Ecbatana, a palace in the Iranian plateau. It was the crossroads of the world for trade, and the Medes found themselves subjects of a despot nearer to home. #4 The Medes were a devout and ethical people, who valued visions of doom. They knew that creation was full of darkness, and they were duty-bound to kill any creatures that might be the visible excrescents of a universal shadow.

Download or read book A Religion Nearly Three Thousand Years Old, the So Called Persian Fire-worshipers of Yezd written by Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Yahwism under the Achaemenid Empire written by Gad Barnea, Reinhard G. Kratz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-11-04 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Fire written by Katherine Neville and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2003, Colorado: Alexandra Solarin is summoned home to her family’s ancestral Rocky Mountain hideaway for her mother’s birthday. Thirty years ago, her parents, Cat Velis and Alexander Solarin, believed that they had scattered the pieces of the Montglane Service around the world, burying with the chessmen the secrets of the power that comes with possessing them. But Alexandra arrives to find that her mother is missing–and that the Game has begun again. 1822, Albania: Haidee, the young daughter of a powerful Ottoman ruler, embarks on a dangerous mission to smuggle a valuable relic out of Albania and deliver it into the hands of the one man who might be able to save it. Haidee’s journey brings forth chilling revelations that burn through history to the present day.