The Lost Army

The 4th century BC. A village in Syria. A woman, dressed in rags and covered in blisters and sores, is seen approaching on the road coming from the north. Suspicious of her, the villagers shout and throw rocks at her. She is struck and falls. She seems dead . . .Her story encompasses one of the great collective acts of heroism of the ancient world. She was the mistress of Xenophon, a general in the vast army of ten thousand Greek mercenaries from virtually every Greek city state that was employed by Cyrus the Younger, in his quest to seize the throne of Persia from his brother, Artaxerxes II.In The Lost Army Valerio Massimo Manfredi, one of the world's historical experts, has created a rip-roaring adventure seen from the perspective of the women who accompanied the soldiers on their long journey. An intense account of the most celebrated march in man's history, by the acclaimed author of the Alexander trilogy.

Product details

• Authors: Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Manfredi Valerio Massimo
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.07.2015
• EAN: 9781447276678
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-7667-8
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Biographical, Historical adventure, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Ancient Greece, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Thrillers / Historical, Historical adventure fiction, Myth & legend told as fiction, c 1000 BCE to start of CE period, BCE to c 500 CE, Persian Empire, Ancient Greek style, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales