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082 _aFiction IGG-C
100 _aIggulden, Conn
245 _aFalcon of sparta /
_cConn Iggulden
260 _aIndia
_bPenguin Books
_c2018
300 _a432 p.
365 _aINR
_b599.00
500 _aIn the Ancient World, one army was feared above all others. This is their story. When Cyrus, brother to the Great King of Persia, attempts to overthrow his reckless sibling, he employs a Greek mercenary army of 10,000 soldiers. When this army becomes stranded as a result of the unexpected death of Cyrus, and then witnesses the treacherous murder of its entire officer corps, despair over takes them. One man, Xenophon, rallies the Greeks. As he attempts to lead them to freedom across 1,500 miles of hostile territory seething with adversaries, 10,000 men set off on the long way home.
650 _aFiction