Xenophon's Retreat. Greece, Persia and the end of the Golden Age, Main, Paperback/Robin Waterfield

It is 401 BC. After an epic battle in Persia, Xenophon is elected general of the defeated Greek army and must lead the men on a fraught journey back home - a journey of hundreds of miles, north from modern-day Iraq into the mountains of Kurdistan and Armenia, and down to the coast of the Black Sea, fighting all the way. Publisher: Faber & Faber Author(s): Robin Waterfield Number of pages: 272 Publication date: 2007 Dimensions: 197 x 127 x 18 Cover type: Paperback / softback