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The First World Empire and the Battle for the West - Tom Holland

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Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Release date: July 20, 2016
Duration: 14:51:54

In 480 B.C., 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 in the epochal naval battle 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 an entity as the West at all.

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, which combines scholarly rigor with novelistic depth with a worldly irony in quite the fashion that Tom Holland does.

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TH - 001 - Preface.mp3 14.87 MBs
TH - 002 - Chapter 1.mp3 40.48 MBs
TH - 003 - Chapter 2.mp3 28 MBs
TH - 004 - Chapter 3.mp3 39.47 MBs
TH - 005 - Chapter 4.mp3 46.45 MBs
TH - 006 - Chapter 5.mp3 62.93 MBs
TH - 007 - Chapter 6.mp3 62.12 MBs
TH - 008 - Chapter 7.mp3 50.54 MBs
TH - 009 - Chapter 8.mp3 66.13 MBs
TH - 010 - Envoi.mp3 1.55 MBs
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Piece Size: 512 KBs
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