Salamis 480 BC: The Naval Campaign That Saved Greece Condition:Like New and New Masses

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Author: Ken Iverson

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First published in 1946

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Salamis 480 BC: The Naval Campaign That Saved Greece Condition:Like New and New MassesOsprey's study of a crucial battle of the Greco Persian Wars (499 449 BC). Weeks after the glorious disaster at Thermopylae and heavy but inconclusive fighting at sea off Artemisium, with Athens now in barbarian hands and the Acropolis burned, the Greeks dramatically halted the Persian invasion of 480 BC. They brought the 600 strong Persian fleet to battle with their 350 triremes in the confined waters of the straits of Salamis and, through a