Persian Fire by Tom Holland The Fall Risk The islanders will have to

The islanders will have to survive long enough to figure out why they are being targeted

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Persian Fire by Tom Holland The Fall Risk The islanders will have toIn 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory rapid, spectacular victory had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shattering ancient kingdoms, storming famous cities, putting together an empire which stretched from India to the shores of the Aegean. As a result of those