Rise of an empire
Subtitle: how one man united Greece and defeated Xerxes' Persians
By: Stephen Dando-Collins
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Hoboken, New Jersey
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781118454794
Subjects: Generals; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The road to Marathon; title: Young Themistocles; title: To fight, or not to fight; title: The Battle of Marathon; title: Turning to the sea; title: The Persians are coming; title: Preparing to face Xerxes; title: The greatest army and navy on earth; title: Athens' floating wall of wood; title: The Battle of Thermopylae, and the 300 Spartans; title: Cut and thrust at Artemisium; title: The Battle of Artemisium; title: After Thermopylae; title: Abandoning Athens; title: The Salamis trap; title: The Battle of Salamis; title: Pursuing the Persians; title: The battles of Plataea and Mycale; title: The bitter end.