The Battle of Marathon by Peter Krentz

The Battle of Marathon

Peter Krentz

256 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Clever scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another....

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