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Winter, 401 BC. When leadership is forced upon Xenophon after the treacherous slaughter of his senior comrades in arms, it is up to him to inspire the few remaining officers of the Greek army to rally their troops. Trapped far from home in hostile Persian territory, they are only ten thousand men against an enemy ten times larger. Months later, ten thousand battered, half-starved Greek soldiers stagger out of the frozen mountains of Armenia into a small Hellenic trading post on the Black Sea. Told from the viewpoint of Theo, Xenophon's battle squire, this is a unique view of the brutality and heroism of 5th-century BC Greek warfare.
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The Ten Thousand, Michael Curtis Ford
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- Released
- 2002
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- Title
- The Ten Thousand
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Michael Curtis Ford
- Publisher
- Orion
- Released
- 2002
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 496
- ISBN10
- 0752844857
- ISBN13
- 9780752844855
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Military Fiction, Wars, Ancient History, Greece, Ancient Greece, Athens, Persia, Greeks, War Campaigns, Sparta (Ancient City), Greco-Persian Wars
- First published
- 2001
- Original title
- The Ten Thousand
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- Winter, 401 BC. When leadership is forced upon Xenophon after the treacherous slaughter of his senior comrades in arms, it is up to him to inspire the few remaining officers of the Greek army to rally their troops. Trapped far from home in hostile Persian territory, they are only ten thousand men against an enemy ten times larger. Months later, ten thousand battered, half-starved Greek soldiers stagger out of the frozen mountains of Armenia into a small Hellenic trading post on the Black Sea. Told from the viewpoint of Theo, Xenophon's battle squire, this is a unique view of the brutality and heroism of 5th-century BC Greek warfare.