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In the Ancient World one army was feared above all others. 401 BC. 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. The sons of Sparta those whose fathers and grandfathers fell at Thermopylae and perished in the Peloponnesian Wars work as mercenaries for Persian princes eager to play the game of thrones. When Cyrus the younger brother to the Great King lays claim to his father's crown he does so with an elite army of Spartans at his side. 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' legendary Persian warriors. Drawing on one of history's most epic stories of adventure The Falcon of Sparta masterfully depicts the ferocity heroism and savage bloodshed that was the ancient World.
TITLE: The Falcon of Sparta
AUTHOR: Conn Iggulden
SKU: 9780718181475
PUBLISHER: Penguin Books Ltd
DATE PUBLISHED: 26/04/2018
PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom
PAGES: 448
BINDING: Paperback / softback
LANGUAGE: English
DIMENSIONS: 153 mm x 234 mm x 31 mm
WEIGHT: 577 gr