Clash of Empires: The Rise and Fall of Persia

The Rise of Persia

This details the fall of Babylon and the Lydians and the rise of the Persian Empire under Cyrus the Great and features a historical overview of the period and 10 army lists plus variants including: Lydian Empire, Neo-Babylonian Empire,Archaic Greek, Early Achaemenid Persia, Saitic Egyptian, Cyrenaian Greek, Libyan, Early Macedonian, Skythian and Thracian.

Clash of East and West

The second part charts the Greek and Persian Wars throughout the Mediterranean. Army lists featured in the section include: Achaemenid Persian Empire, Early Hoplite Greek, Early Spartan, Early Carthaginian, Later Hoplite Greek (including Athenian, Argive, Theban and Phokian), Later Spartan, Syracusan/Siciliot, Elymian/Sikel/Sicanian, Thessalian and Illyrian.

The Fall of Persia

The final part of the book charts the rise of Macedon and Alexander the Great and his destruction of the Persian Empire and expansion of the Macedonian Empire. It features the following army lists: Rise of Macedon, Later AchaemenidPersian, Alexandrian Macedonian and Ancient Indian.