The retreat of the ten thousand by C. Witt and Xenophon

"The Retreat of the Ten Thousand" by C. Witt and Xenophon is an ancient Greek account written around 370 BC. It tells the story of ten thousand Greek mercenaries stranded deep in Persia after their employer, Cyrus the Younger, dies in battle against his brother. With their leaders killed by treachery, the soldiers must fight their way north through hostile territory, treacherous mountains, and foodless deserts to reach the safety of the Black Sea. Their desperate journey becomes one of history's greatest survival adventures. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Witt, C. (Carl), 1815-1891
Author Xenophon, 432 BCE-351? BCE
Author of introduction, etc. Dakyns, Henry Graham, 1838-1911
Translator Younghusband, Frances
Uniform Title Die tapferen 10,000. English
Title The retreat of the ten thousand
Original Publication London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabasis_(Xenophon)
Note Based on Xenophon's Anabasis.
Credits Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 70.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PT: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Subject Iran -- History -- To 640
Subject Cyrus, the Younger, approximately 423 B.C.-401 B.C.
Subject Greece -- History -- Expedition of Cyrus, 401 B.C.
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EBook-No. 71894
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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