The latest epic in this bestselling author\'s Athenian series of novels takes the reader on a vivid adventure where Themistocles will risk everything-his honor, his friendships, even his life-to protect his country.
And once again Themistocles, the hero of Salamis, will risk everything-his honor, his friendships, even his life-to protect his country..
For the people of Athens, threatened on all sides, nothing less than the survival of democracy is at stake.
For the Spartans, Plataea is a chance to avenge their defeat at Thermopylae.
Tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides ready themselves for war.
The Battle of Plataea: Less than a year later, the Persians return to reconquer the Greeks.
Over three long days, the greatest naval battle of the Ancient world will unfold, a bloody war between the democracy of Athens and the tyranny of Persia.
Veteran soldier Themistocles cannot push the Persians back by force on land, and so he so does so by stealth, at sea.
Come to destroy, once and for all, everything that the city stands for, he stares pitilessly at the hopelessly outnumbered Greeks.
The Battle of Salamis: Persian King Xerxes stands over the smoking ruins of Athens, an army of slaves at his back.
The latest epic in this bestselling author\'s Athenian series of novels takes the reader on a vivid adventure where Themistocles will risk everything-his honor, his friendships, even his life-to protect his country
