The Persian Expedition by Xenophon (Penguin Classics Paperback 1979)

With Penguin clear dust wrapper

Some marks and wear & tear, see photos for condition

ISBN 0140440070

This account of the Ten Thousand, of their march into Persia to put Cyrus on the throne, of their total defeat at the battle of Cunaxa and of their heroic march back to the Black Sea remains one of the great adventure stories of history. Even if Xenophon

(c. 430-354 B.C.), the Athenian general and his-orian whose sympathies lay with Sparta, sometimes rivals Julius Caesar for self-congratulation, it is impossible not to be drawn by his simple narrative of courage. skill and initiative and by the pride and piety of the band of Greeks cut off in a world of barbarians.

The cover shows a Persian relief depicting archers from the Palace of Darius I. in the Louvre. Paris (Snark International)