Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the End of the Golden Age by Robin Waterfield

Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the End of the Golden Age

Robin Waterfield

248 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous challenging informative slow-paced
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In "The Expedition of Cyrus," the Western world's first eyewitness account of a military campaign, Xenophon told how, in 401 B.C., a band of unruly Greek mercenaries traveled east to fight for the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger in his attempt to...

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