The Falcon of Sparta

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Call Number: Adult BOCD / Fiction / Historical / Iggulden, Conn
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch

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Compact disc.
In container (17 cm.).
Title from container.
Narrated by Pete Bradbury.
In the ancient world, one army was feared above all others. The Persian king Artaxerxes rules an empire stretching from the Aegean to northern India. As many as fifty million people are his subjects. His rule is absolute. Though the sons of Sparta are eager to play the game of thrones... Yet battles can be won--or lost--with a single blow. Princes fall. And when the dust of civil war settles, the Spartans are left stranded in the heart of an enemy's empire, without support, without food, and without water. Far from home, surrounded by foes, it falls to the young soldier Xenophon to lead the survivors against Artaxerxes's legendary Persian warriors.

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Spartan warrior's life submitted by leea on July 7, 2019, 10:02pm It tells the extraordinary tale of the march of the ten thousand, one of whom was the Greek, Xenophon, who plays a critical role in The Falcon of Sparta. The descriptions of life on the march, especially over mountains controlled by lawless and brutal tribes, are fascinating and so well drawn. The battle scenes are thrilling, intensified by the author’s detailed knowledge about all aspects of warfare around the year 400 BC.