ASIN: B00R6RN1Q0
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 44
*Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts describing the battle*Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“Forward, sons of the Greeks,Liberate the fatherland,Liberate your children, your women,The altars of the gods of your fathers,And the graves of your ancestors:Now is the fight for everything.” – The Greek battle hymn sung before the Battle of Salamis according to AeschylusThe names of history’s most famous battles still ring in our ears today, their influence immediately understood by all. Marathon lent its name to the world’s most famous race, but it also preserved Western civilization during the First Persian War. Saratoga, won by one of the colonists’ most renowned war heroes before he became his nation’s most vile traitor. Hastings ensured the Normans’ success in England and changed the course of British history. Waterloo, which marked the ...
