Classic spin.(Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World)(Book review)

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Paul Cartledge Thermopylae: The Battle That Changed the World. Overlook Press, 376 pages, $30

Thermopylae is legendary, its story, is simple: three hundred Spartans stood in a narrow pass, where the mountains came down to the sea, and tried to stop a huge Persian army of invasion. For two days the Spartans savaged the enemy, but on the third day, the Persians surrounded them. The Spartans had advance warning that they would be cut off, but rather than escape they chose to hold their ground and to die to the last man, including their king, Leonidas. Their heroic stand ...

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