Thermopylae: The Battle for the West by Ernle Bradford

Thermopylae: The Battle for the West

Ernle Bradford

256 pages first pub 1980 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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An impressively accessible narrative depicting the three-day battle for the pass at Thermopylae (the Hot Gates)--a critical contest in Xerxes's massive invasion of Greece. The bloody stand made there by Leonidas and his small Spartan army in 480 B...

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