An Oxford historian who walked the battlefields himself retells the conflict between Greece and Persia, from the Ionian revolt and Marathon through Thermopylae, Artemisium and Salamis to Plataea. Grundy weighs Herodotus and his Spartan and Athenian sources against the terrain, with maps of each field.
A detailed military history for readers who want to understand how the Greeks really fought. Download the free EPUB.