Kaveh Farrokh

DR KAVEH FARROKH has been researching the military history and technology of Persia for a quarter of a century. He obtained his PhD in 2001 from the University of British Columbia, and is ranked among the world's top experts of the military history of ancient Persia and his articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals. He has written four previous books on Persian military history. The second, Shadows in the Desert: Ancient Persia at War (Osprey, 2007) was translated into Russian and...See more

DR KAVEH FARROKH has been researching the military history and technology of Persia for a quarter of a century. He obtained his PhD in 2001 from the University of British Columbia, and is ranked among the world's top experts of the military history of ancient Persia and his articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals. He has written four previous books on Persian military history. The second, Shadows in the Desert: Ancient Persia at War (Osprey, 2007) was translated into Russian and Persian, received the Best History Book Award of 2008 and was cited as among the top 3 history books of 2008 by the Independent Book Publishers Association in the USA. He is also the author of Armies of Ancient Persia: The Sassanians (Pen & Sword, 2017). See less