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The Battle of Thermopylae
Book 7 in the Ancient Greek History series.
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The Battle of Thermopylae is an accessible non-fiction account of one of the Greatest Battles in Ancient History Between the Spartans and Persians. It establishes the causes, chronology and principal phases of the conflict while explaining the political aims and military resources of the opposing sides.
The book places campaigns and leadership within their wider setting, including diplomacy, civilian experience, economic pressure and the settlement or memory that followed. Its historical scope is represented on HBS by Battle of Thermopylae. Key figures linked to the book include Leonidas I, Xerxes I.
