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(...) In Places of Destiny, Ben Dupré tells the stories of 35 events that altered the course of history, and whose locations are indelibly etched into humanity's collective consciousness: the resistance of Leonidas' Spartans, an enduring epic of last-ditch heroism in the face of Xerxes' Persians at the lonely pass of Thermopylae in 480 BC; the sack of Rome in AD 410 when the Visigoths under Alaric swarmed into Rome and subjected the Eternal City to three days of looting; the estblishing of a settlement of courageous pioneers, harbinger of a great new nation, on Jamestown Island, Virginia, in 1607; the storming of the Bastille and the birth of modern republican politics in Paris on 14 July 1789; the extinction, senseless and bloody, of an entire generation of Western European manhood on the shattered plains of the Somme Valley in 1916; and the irruption of terror from the skies into a bright Manhattan morning on the most dreadful day of the infant 21st century. (...)
