The Killing Ground is a new and innovative look at a battlefield. Instead of confining itself to a single battle in detail, the authors have chosen a battlefield that has been fought over twenty-seven ...
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Thermopylae 480 BC, why a narrow pass and 300 Spartans stood between Greece and the Persian Empire
In the summer of 480 BC, a narrow mountain pass became the stage for one of history’s most symbolic last stands. This chapter explores Thermopylae as sacred ground, strategic chokepoint, and political ...
Smarting under the defeat of Marathon, Persia’s great Xerxes crossed the Hellespont on a bridge of boats in the summer of 480 B. c., and marched through Thessaly. Herodotus recorded that he had ...
GRAND FORKS AIR FORCE BASE, N. D. -- In the recent movie adaptation of Frank Miller's book, 300, moviegoers are provided a cinematic history lesson of the great Battle of Thermopylae, where Leonidas, ...
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