Persian Fire (Signed 1st Edition)

Tom Holland

ISBN 10: 0316726648 / ISBN 13: 9780316726641

Published by Little Brrown, 2005

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Red boards with gilt titles to the spine. Clean pages. Firm binding. Dust jacket is not price clipped. Signed by the author to the title page. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging and dust jackets are placed in removable protective covers. Seller Inventory # 17756

Bibliographic Details

Title: Persian Fire (Signed 1st Edition)

Publisher: Little Brrown

Publication Date: 2005

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed By Author

Edition: 1st Edition.

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Synopsis:

History. Tom Holland's brilliant new book describes the very first "clash of empires" between East and West. As he did in the critically praised Rubicon, he has found extraordinary parallels between the ancient world and our own. There is no other popular history that takes in the entire sweep of the Persian Wars, and no other classical historian, academic or popular, who combines scholarly rigor with novelistic depth and a worldly irony in quite the fashion that Tom Holland does.

About the Author:

Tom Holland is a historian of the ancient world and a translator. His books include Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic, Persian Fire, In the Shadow of the Sword and The Forge of Christendom. He has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for the BBC. In 2007, he was the winner of the Classical Association prize, awarded to “the individual who has done most to promote the study of the language, literature and civilization of Ancient Greece and Rome.” He lives in London with his family.
Visit the author's website at www.tom-holland.org.