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From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: November 12, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

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

BY ROBIN WATERFIELD

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Xenophon was a literate bruiser, a writer's mercenary and a mercenary writer. In 401 BC he led one of the most famous marches in history, a 1,700-mile trek from the perilous heart of the Persian empire to safety on the Aegean coast.

The ragtag Greeks he led, the Ten Thousand, have passed into history with the sort of lustre reserved for the Three Hundred at Thermopylae and The Few of the Second World War. And yet, judging by Robin ...

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