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Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent by Tom Holland
$20.00 NZD
Category: Wars of the Ages
In 480 BC, 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. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shatte ...Show more
Rubicon by Tom Holland
$20.00 NZD
Category: Wars of the Ages
An accessible and exciting narrative history of the final 100 years of the Republic. Fascinating and thrilling, it's international politics as played out by the sopranos.The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hill ...Show more
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