The Navy of the Sasanids. Dmitriev V.

For a long time, both domestic and foreign historical science was believed that the Armed Forces of the Persian Power of the Sassanids (III -VII centuries) consisted exclusively of the grounds of troops - cavalry, infantry and detachments of combat elephants (elephantery). The new book of one of the leading Russian military historians, candidate of historical sciences V. A. Dmitriev, offered to the attention of readers makes serious adjustments to the established ideas about the military affairs of the Sassanids. On a wide historical material, the author convincingly shows that, along with land units, a well -defined (and sometimes decisive) role in the wars, which were waged by Sassanid Iran, played the Navy throughout its history.