Author: BRADFORD, ERNLE
Title: The Battle for the West: Thermopylae
Description: New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1980. First US Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0070070628. A first printing of the US edition of Ernle Bradford's description of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. The Persians, under their King Xerxes, amassed huge forces in an attempt to conquer Greece. The Greek city-states joined together and chose the pass at Thermopylae as a place to stem the invasion. With 6 maps. This work originally published as "The Year of Thermopylae" in the United Kingdom by Macmillan. --- In full red-orange paper-covered boards backed in light grey cloth with spine titling in black. Volume wrapped in jacket with engraved illustration of battle scene to front and back panels. --- A sound, well-preserved copy, though with inked & penciled notations to front free endpaper. Unclipped jacket ($12.95) with a few small tears and mildly sunned spine, otherwise intact.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; 255 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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