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COOK, J. M. The Persians
Folio Society, London. 2006, 11th Printing. Decorative Cloth Hard Cover, 7" x 10". 374 pp. Indexed. Flawless copy, as new. Ornately decorative gilt to front panel and backstrip of buckram cloth. Persia was the first superpower of the ancient world. Her history is one of ceaseless campaigning, conquest, subjugation and revolt, dominated by the warrior–kings – Cyrus the Great, Cambyses, Darius and Xerxes. When Cambyses conquered Egypt in 525 BC, the empire was more vast and formidable than any seen before, stretching from the Nile to Afghanistan. J. M. Cook's authoritative history reveals the military strategies by which Persia reached her position of unprecedented greatness and the infrastructure by which she maintained it, until Darius III was finally defeated by Alexander the Great in 330 BC. Fine/No Jacket Issued.
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