EAN: 9781684424375

CYRUS THE GREAT - STEPHEN DANDO-COLLINS KARTONI...

Cyrus the Great was a brilliant general who founded the Persian Empire  greatest empire of its
day. He was also the king who freed the Jews from exile at Babylon and allowed them to return
to Jerusalem  with the Bible describing him as the only non Jew anointed by god. Cyrus
influenced the US Bill of Rights  and is the biblical figure to whom US President Donald Trump
has been favorably compared by Christian evangelicals and the Prime Minister of Israel. In this
first ever modern biography of Cyrus  noted historical biographer and author of 43 books
Stephen Dando-Collins describes Cyrus' fraught youth  his rise to power via rebellion  his
dashing military campaigns that destroyed the Median  Lydian and Babylonian empires  and his
uniquely magnanimous reign. With his usual depth of research and highly readable narrative
Dando-Collins cuts through myth and folklore to deliver a fascinating account of a fascinating
life.

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