Falcon of Sparta

The gripping and battle-scarred adventure from The Sunday Times bestselling author of Empire

AvConn Iggulden

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THE GRIPPING ADVENTURE BASED ON AN EPIC TRUE STORY FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR, PERFECT FOR FANS OF BERNARD CORNWELL'HIS FINEST NOVEL TO DATE . . . THE BATTLE SCENES ARE THRILLING' SUNDAY EXPRESS__________In the Ancient World, one army was feared above all others.401 BC. The Persian king Artaxerxes rules an empire stretching from the Aegean to northern India.As many as fifty million people are his subjects.His rule is absolute.But the sons of Sparta are eager to play the game of thrones . . .Battles can be won - or lost - with a single blow.Princes fall. And when the dust of civil war settles, the Spartans are left stranded in the heart of an enemy's empire, without support, without food and without water.Far from home, surrounded by foes, it falls to the young soldier Xenophon to lead the survivors against Artaxerxes' legendary Persian warriors . . .__________'The pace is nail-biting' THE TIMESPraise for Conn Iggulden:'Here is a master at work. There is no one better at this' GILES KRISTIAN'Brings war in the ancient world to vivid, gritty and bloody life. I'm blown away' ANTHONY RICHES'Iggulden tells an absolutely cracking story...the pace is nail-biting and the set dressing magnificent' THE TIMES'An epic piece of historical fiction, full of political intrigue and vivid action' ROBERT FABBRI'Iggulden is in a class of his own when it comes to epic, historical fiction' DAILY MIRRORAuthor's novel, Empire was a Sunday Times bestseller May 2023

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-05-03
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781405921527
Förlag:Penguin Books Ltd

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Thriller inom Deckare
Historiska äventyrsromaner inom Skönlitteratur
Krigsromaner inom Skönlitteratur

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CONN IGGULDEN is one of the most successful authors of historical fiction writing today, with bestselling series on Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan and the Wars of the Roses, as well as two stand-alone novels: Dunstan, set in the red-blooded world of tenth-century England and The Falcon of Sparta, in which Iggulden returns to the Ancient World. Both instalments of his Athenian series, The Gates of Athens and Protector, and his recent Golden Age series, Lion and Empire, are Sunday Times bestsellers. Tyrant and Inferno follow on from the Sunday Times bestselling Nero in Iggulden's most recent series.

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His finest novel to date, brings alive the extraordinary world of ancient Persia, as well as the ruthless nobility of the Spartans. The battle scenes are thrilling and the men who fight in them are impeccably portrayed