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.
