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Ten Thousand : A Novel of Ancient Greece by Michael Curtis Ford (2001, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSt. Martin's Press

ISBN-100312269463

ISBN-139780312269463

eBay Product ID (ePID)1786469

Product Key Features

Book TitleTen Thousand : a Novel of Ancient Greece

Number of Pages384 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2001

TopicWar & Military, Historical

FeaturesRevised

GenreFiction

AuthorMichael Curtis Ford

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight24.3 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2001-017426

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews"The Greek mercenaries of the time of Socrates lost a war to the Persians but gained immortality. Thrilling, eloquent, illuminated by scholarship, comes this retelling of the epic running battle of the Ten Thousand from Babylon to the sea."--James Brady, author of the bestselling The Marines of Autumn "There is no more gripping story of desperate courage than the march of the Ten Thousand. Yet few Americans know anything about their astonishing trek out of Asia some 2,400 years ago. Michael Curtis Ford's moving account of the fighting and dying of these heroic Greek mercenaries is not only historically sound, but very human, making Xenophon's tale come alive in a way that no ancient historian or classicist has yet accomplished."--Victor Davis Hanson, author of The Soul of Battle

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal813.6

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisAfter decades of war, mighty Athens has been ravaged-- its navy destroyed, its city walls toppled, its army disbanded. The fierce military state of Sparta has triumphed, but passions and hate linger on. Thousands of battle-hardened veterans from both sides in the conflict remain scattered across the Greek islands, restless and dangerous-- until the young Persian prince Cyrus issues a call to arms from his base in Asia Minor. The rogue nobleman is raising an enormous mercenary army to wrest control of all of Persia, the most powerful empire on earth, from his half-brother the king. The young philosopher-warrior Xenophon, scion of a noble Athenian family and follower of Socrates, risks his father's wrath and embarks on the adventure with high hopes for glory. Joining his cousin Proxenus, the war-maddened Spartan general Clearchus, and a huge body of Cyrus' native troops, he and ten thousand Greek mercenaries depart on an astounding march of a thousand miles, across the searing desert. Their near-deadly journey culminated in a massive, bloody battle at the very threshold of Babylon-- a battle that proves disastrous for them. Their leaders are betrayed and murdered, their supply lines cut, and their route home across the desert blocked by the furious Persian king, bent on revenge. The Fates call on Xenophon to lead the devastated Greek soldiers in their escape, though he has little experience in commanding men. As the army flees toward the snowy north, its situation appears desperate. Months later, ten thousand battered, half-starved soldiers stagger out of the frozen mountains of Armenia into a small Greek trading post on the Black Sea. Their true tale of survival, and of the heroic expedition Xenophon led through the heart of an enemy empire, astonished the incredulous natives and has been the stuff of legend ever since. Michael Curtis Ford combines his expertise on fifth-century B.C. Greek warfare with explosive page-turning action to give us an epic novel of struggle and survival. Not since Steven Pressfield's" Gates of Fire "has any book so vividly captured the glory, beauty, and savage bloodshed that was ancient Greece.

LC Classification NumberPS3606.O74T4 2001