Shadows In The Desert Ancient Persia At War Kaveh Farrokh by Kaveh Farrokh instant download after payment.

The ruins of Persepolis evoke the best-known events of ancient Persia's
history: Alexander the Great's defeat of Darius III, his conquest of the
Achaemenid empire, and the burning of the great palace complex at
Persepolis. However, most of the history of ancient Persia remains as
mysterious today as it was to contemporary Western scholars. Compared to
the world-famous Alexander, the many wars won by the Achaemenid,
Parthian, and Sassanian empires, and their revolutionary military
technology, have been almost forgotten in the sands of the East. In its
day, Persia was a superpower to rival Greece and Rome, and conflict
between them spanned over a millennium. Through these wars, and trade,
these foes learnt from each other, not only adopting elements of
military technology, but influences in the arts, architecture, religion,
technology and learning. In this beautifully illustrated book, Dr Kaveh
Farrokh narrates the history of Persia from before the first empires,
through their wars with East and West to the fall of the Sassanians. He
also delves into the forgotten cultural heritage of the Persians, spread
across the world through war and conquest, which, even after the fall
of the Sassanians, continued to impact upon the Western world.