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L'armata perduta [Italian] / Valerio Massimo Manfredi.

by Manfredi, Valerio.

Mondadori, 2007.

Greece -- History -- Expedition of Cyrus, 401 B.C. -- Fiction.

Greece -- Fiction.

Alternate title:

Lost army [Italian]

413 p. ; 23 cm.

Text in Italian.

"In the 4th century BC, in 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. Manfredi, one of the world's experts, has created a rip-roaring adventure seen from the perspective of the women who accompanied the soldiers on their long journey. This is a new and intense account of the most celebrated march in man's history." -- Book description.

Italian language materials.

Historical fiction.

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