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Tom Holland's bestselling account of the world's very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC

'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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447 páginas
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Abacus
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21 abril 2011
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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, shattering ancient kingdoms, storming famous cities, putting together an empire which stretched from India to the shores of the Aegean. As a result of those conquests, Xerxes ruled as the most powerful man on the planet. Yet somehow, astonishingly, against the largest expeditionary force ever assembled, the Greeks of the mainland managed to hold out. The Persians were turned back. Greece remained free. Had the Greeks been defeated 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 and entity as the West at all.

Tom Holland's brilliant new book describes the very first 'clash of Empires' between East and West. Once again he has found extraordinary parallels between the ancient world and our own. There is no competing popular book describing these events. --Este texto se refiere a la edición paperback.

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Gripping and authoritative ... An awe-inspiring story of the struggle for freedom (Express)

Confident, fluent and accessible, and with salutary lessons for our own times, this is history at its best (The Times) --Este texto se refiere a una edición agotada o no disponible de este título.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004WJRT9U
Editorial ‏ : ‎ Abacus; New Ed edición (21 abril 2011)
Idioma ‏ : ‎ Inglés
Tamaño del archivo ‏ : ‎ 2248 KB
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Lector de pantalla ‏ : ‎ Compatibles
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Notas adhesivas ‏ : ‎ En Kindle Scribe
Longitud de impresión ‏ : ‎ 447 páginas

Clasificación en los más vendidos de Amazon: nº12,461 en Tienda Kindle (Ver el Top 100 en Tienda Kindle)
- nº50 en Historia en inglés
- nº53 en Historia en idiomas extranjeros
- nº135 en Historia antigua

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Interesante, ameno, entretenido, Holland tiene una prosa inmersiva y un profundo conocimiento de las épocas sobre las que escribe. Magistral.

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Excelente resumen de las guerras médicas

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Holland narra lo sucedido con prosa amena y ritmo ligero, mostrando cómo los eventos individuales sucedidos en medio mundo acabaron confluyendo para dar lugar a lo que , sin duda, es el nacimiento de Occidente

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Nik Jewell

A fairly good work of historical fiction (?)

Revisado en el Reino Unido 🇬🇧 el 5 de mayo de 2018

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Having enjoyed Holland's translation of Herodotus (and his Roman books) I had high hopes for this; alas, they were dashed. The Persians fascinate me but I learnt nothing new about them in this mistitled book which is (perhaps inevitably, as it is rooted in Herodotus) written almost entirely from the Greek perspective.

In Holland's books on Caesar and the Julio-Claudians he had copious amounts of classical texts to work with and this justified his confident narrative style. With the Greco-Persian wars he has Herodotus, with a few forays into Thucydides, Plutarch and Diodorus). This material does not justify the same assured approach here, nor is he shy of using a dozen words where one or two will suffice (which eventually becomes tiresome in itself).

Presented as history, but ultimately a work of historical fiction I fear, though not a bad one at that; the reader would be better off sticking with reading Herodotus, which is far more enjoyable.

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P. Caetano

Book as thrilling as the movie 300 on the bravery of the Greeks against the Persians

Revisado en el Reino Unido 🇬🇧 el 6 de marzo de 2020

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The Greco-Persian wars are often just referred to as the Persian wars. In the same manner, this book's title is "Persian Fire" but, after an initial account of the raise of the Persian empire/emperors, it really zooms in on the bravery and faults of Athens, Sparta and other Greek towns around the Aegean sea including Ionia in today's turkey, coming together - or many times not - against the Persian common gigantic foe. The granularity of the disagreements within the Greeks is fascinating as it goes down to the psychological level of each city, with some characters either by fear or bribes willing to side with or appease the Persians, but others preferring to fight. What goes in Athens under threat is truly fascinating as only when a wealthier town then, Miletus, is destroyed and doesn't resist within its walls, do the Athenians decide to fight on open ground in Marathon, with the Spartans (with their own fascinating set of character and issues) arriving to help too late after the victory. All this is told in a thrilling manner were all characters come alive in a convincing psychological profile manger, their reasons and context. Famous characters like Leonidas from Sparta or Xerxes are described vividly and like a novel but always quoting the original sources. In Summary, excellent job of non-fiction as fun or more fun than fiction to read! And in such an important topic such as the reason the West and Democracy exists because all this happened and resulted ultimately in the victory of Greece and beyond in Europe!

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Jenny

Readable study of the human obsession with power

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Hollands book is a great work of history told with style and insight. He takes his time in establishing the main players, Persia, Athena & Sparta. Particularly of note is the role of the Persian religion of 'Ahura Mazda'. Based on truth vs lies it enabled the Great King of Kings to attack and conquer cities with the excuse of bringing them 'the truth' and destroying the statues etc of their old 'false' Gods. To a cynic, just a excuse for conquest and land grabbing.
Both Athens and Sparta receive ample attention, Holland explaining the Athenian budding of democracy and the extremely unforgiving and strict warrior code of Sparta. The work also seems to debunk some myths. For example , that it was the messenger who ran from Marathon to bring news of victory and then dropped down dead. Holland tells us that the running was actually done by the Athenians themselves after they realised the Persian fleet was heading to Athens and they'd left their city sparsely defended.
Ultimately this is a book about the desire for power and conquest. But, its also a very human telling. We read how different characters of history interacted with each other, how their rivalry and hatreds (the Greeks) made them easier targets. Division, it seems, really does breed weakness. When you read of all the back-stabbing, plotting and power struggles it is quite amazing that the Greeks managed to work together well enough to fend off the threat from the east.

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StevenMcc

Fascinating account of Greece around 500BC.

Revisado en el Reino Unido 🇬🇧 el 3 de diciembre de 2020

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Tom Holland's books are so easy to read! I am on my third now and his knowledge shines through in all of them, his understanding of the times he writes about, his obvious fascination with the Greeks and Romans between say 550BC and the first century AD. I now know what the Battle of Marathon was (and hence why marathons) and understand a little more about how the Greeks stopped Xerxes and the 'Persian' army (it did of course comprise of men from all areas around the Near East across towards India) in their tracks and protected Greek culture for posterity. He certainly goes into adequate detail (for an interested observer) about the negotiations between the Greek cities then and how the battles panned out from both sides' point of view. Tom Holland does seem to dwell too much for me on the utterly horrific and gruesome ways in which human beings (well, some men anyway) treated their enemies in his writings but also he gives us a good feeling for the filth, mud, the basic way in which normal life carried on then. I enjoyed it (not so much the gruesome bits).

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CHRISTOS K. GIANNOUKOS

If you have time to waste

Revisado en el Reino Unido 🇬🇧 el 15 de marzo de 2021

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Writer's intentions are fascinating, he wants to present Persians, Greeks and the conflict between the two. Unfortunately the outcome is mediocre.

There are hundreds of stories, sayings and anecdotes related to the protagonists of that period. Instead, the writer spends pages and pages with vague descriptions and boring overeviews of the events. There are so many stories about Cyrus, from Herodotus and Cyropedia, but writer just cites the basic events.

Another huge problem is the lack of structure. When I was starting a chapter I could not figure out what was the purpose of it. Writer starts from Cyrus, then goes to Darious, then he moves back to the past to describe Babylon and Sargon who lived in 2200 BC. There is no beginning, middle and end in his story telling.

His writing is vivid, but not enough to keep my interest. Fortunately I bought it second hand and didn't waste much money.

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