Author(s): Ian MacGregor Morris
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 112
Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group
Language: English
Date Published: 2003-09-01
Dimensions: 180.8 x 248.4 x 12.2mm
Publication City/Country: New York, NY, United States
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Illustrations: Illustrations, unspecified

A moving biography, this book details the life of Leonidas, the Spartan king who sacrificed himself and his personal bodyguard of 300 men in 480 BC to delay the invasion of the Persian army under King Xerxes and to convince the Greeks that they could unite and drive out the invaders.