Band on the Run Xenophon and the First Great Mercenary Army's Epic Escape from Persia | 25.66 MB
Title: Band on the Run Xenophon and the First Great Mercenary Army's Epic Escape from Persia
Author: Robert L. O'Connell
Category: Nonfiction, History, Ancient History, Greece, Military, Other, Biography & Memoir, Historical
Language: English | ISBN: 9781668112076
Description:
A riveting retelling of one of the great adventure stories of antiquity-when Greek philosopher-warrior Xenophon led a stranded band of the "Ten Thousand" mercenary soldiers on a treacherous escape from the Persians.
400 BC. The Persian prince Cyrus the Younger hires an army of Greek soldiers to oust his brother from the Persian throne. But when Cyrus dies in battle during the army's trek through the middle east, the army is stranded deep in enemy territory.
Led by Xenophon, a young Athenian philosopher turned solider, the Ten Thousand fought their way home through deserts and mountains, snowstorms, starvation, and relentless attacks, evolving into one of the most fearsome forces of the ancient world. Their journey, chronicled in Xenophon's Anabasis, is one of history's greatest military stories.
In Band on the Run, Robert O'Connell not only gives us an exciting and witty retelling of this story, but he has done so with a wise...
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