The Harvest of War: Marathon, Thermopylae, and Salamis: The Epic Battles That Saved Democracy Stephen P. Kershaw. Pegasus, $32 (464p) ISBN 978-1-63936-234-9 ...

Persian Fire, by Tom Holland The faultline of world history lay at the Hellespont, 3,000 years ago. William Napier relishes an epic retelling of the battles of Marathon, Salamis and Thermopylae ...

My Persian War Guide For Trouncing The Competition. ... From what I gather, it's a myth that the Greek General Miltiades sent a messenger to run 26 miles (the distance of a marathon) ...

Mycale, the Great Greek Victory Over the Persians that Ended the Greco-Persian Wars by Jorge Álvarez May 10, ... As we know, this force was crushed on the same plains where it landed, at Marathon, by ...

The Persian Wars Beyond Herodotus. The story of the Graeco-Persian wars has been often told, by ancients and moderns alike. But early in this book Shepherd, a classicist with several works on Ancient ...

New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xxx, 204. Illus, maps, chron., notes, biblio., index. $24.95. ISBN: 0199747326 As the primary source of the Graeco-Persian Wars, the historian, Herodotus ...

In this photo from Jan. 23, 1991, Daniella McLean watches Persian Gulf War coverage on CNN in the living room of her Syracuse, N.Y. home. Her father served with 174th Tactical Fighter Wing.

The Persian Gulf War, a U.S.-led effort to oust Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces from Kuwait, was a short war by modern standards. Combat lasted about a month-and-a-half, claiming close to 300 U.S ...