Persian Fire The First World Empire and the Battle for the West

tom holland gained the top degree at Cambridge before earning his Ph.D. at Oxford. An accomplished radio personality in Britain, he has written a highly acclaimed series of adaptations for Radio 4 of Herodotus'sHistories, Virgil'sAeneid, and Homer'sTheIliadandThe Odyssey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed history of the fall of the Roman Republic,Rubicon, and the novelsThe Bone Hunter,Slave of My Thirst, andLord of the Dead.Holland, Tom is the author of 'Persian Fire The First World Empire and the Battle for the West', published 2007 under ISBN 9780307279484 and ISBN 0307279480.