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The Ten Thousand

The Ten Thousand

by Michael Curtis Ford (Author)

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    Paperback 2001

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Synopsis

It is the beginning of winter, 410 BC and leadership has been forced upon Xenophon after the treacherous slaughter of his senior comrades in arms. Trapped far from home in hostile Persian territory, the Greek Army numbers only ten thousand men against a Persian enemy ten times larger. Many 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 eastern Black Sea. Their tale of survival has been a legend ever since. Here the story is told in the form of a memoir from the viewpoint of Theo, Xenophon's battle squire, who had been his servant since Xenophon's birth. Theo's position affords him a unique view of the brutality and heroism of 5th century BC Greek warfare. The Ten Thousand is a truly heroic tale told here with marvellous detail, style and panache.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 400
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 30 Aug 2001
ISBN 10: 0752841572
ISBN 13: 9780752841571
Book Overview: An extraordinary debut novel of epic adventure in the bestselling vein of Gates of Fire. Huge success of the film Gladiator reveals a hunger for this genre and has whetted appetites for more stories of ancient history. Two advance quotes already from American authors Victor Hanson and James Brady. More to come! 'There is no more gripping story of desperate courage than the march of The Ten Thousand ... Michael Ford's moving account of the fighting and dying of these heroic Greek mercenaries is not only historically sound, but very human, in making Xenophon's tale come alive in a way that no ancient historian or classicist has yet accomplished' Professor Victor Hanson, author of The Soul of Battle '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' James Brady, author of the New York Times bestselling The Marines of Autumn

Author Bio
Michael Ford is 40 years old and runs his own foreign language translation agency. He has a bachelor's degree in Linguistics from the university of Washington and a master's in economics from Princeton. He speaks Spanish, French, Portuguese and Latin, and is an avid reader of the classics. With the wealth of stories uncovered during the research for The Ten Thousand, he is writing his second novel around an ancient civilisation.