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Persian Fire: The First World Empire & Battle For The West Timothy Day The book takes a globalA brilliant new account of the worlds very first clash of civilisations between the Persians and the Greeks in 480BC. Tom Hollands brilliant new book describes the very first clash of Empires between East and West. Once again he has found extraordinary parallels between the ancient world and our own. There is no competing popular book describing these events. In 480 BC, Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should