The Greco-Persian Wars (Edition 1) (Paperback)

from wildbill

I read this as a follow-up to The Landmark Herodotus. The author does quote heavily from Herodotus. He also uses other semi-contemporary sources and some other significant books on the topic. I thought this was an excellent book. At least 25% of the book was analysis. Comparison of the sources an...

from Stbalbach

This is a detailed authoritative though very readable history of the first and second invasion of Greece during the Greco-Persian Wars (499-479 BC). It was first published in 1970 but still worth reading 40+ years on, Peter Green has a great sense of historical detail and accuracy balanced by rea...

from booktsunami

I'm not totally sure that I should be writing this review because I purchased the book recently though I actually read it some 45 years ago as "The year of Salamis". And I purchased this revised and updated book (published in 1996) for my son who is about to engage in a couple of years of ancient...

from Chris469

Highly recommended; exciting read with sound scholarship This book was a very pleasant surprise. I expected a dry, academic work. But this book turns out to be a fascinatingly detailed military account of the Persian Wars that while written in an almost journalistically readable narrative style s...

from booktsunami

I'm not totally sure that I should be writing this review because I purchased the book recently though I actually read it some 45 years ago as "The year of Salamis". And I purchased this revised and updated book (published in 1996) for my son who is about to engage in a couple of years of ancient...