The empires of ancient Persia remain as mysterious today as they were to contemporary Western scholars. Although Alexander the Great's conquest of Persia is legendary, the military successes of the Ac
First in-depth but accessible study in English devoted to Sassanian armies Covers organization, tactics, strategy, siegecraft, weapons and equipment Iranian emigre author draws on Persian sources and
From the Safavid dynasty of the 16th and 17th centuries to the 1979 Revolution and beyond, Kaveh Farrokh traces the martial history of Iran to show how the modern state of Iran developed, and how its
The ruins of Persepolis evoke the best-known events of ancient Persia's history: Alexander the Great's defeat of Darius III, his conquest of the Achaemenid empire, and the burning of the great palace
The Sassanians ruled the last great imperial Empire of Persia before the Arab conquests of the 7th century. Rome’s only equal in the classical world, the Sassanian Empire had an enormous impact on the
