The lost army
By: Valerio Massimo Manfredi ; translated from the Italian by Christine Feddersen-Manfredi
Publisher: W F Howes Ltd.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 579
ISBN-13: 9781407432496
Subjects: Women; Fiction; History; Mercenary troops
Work titles: Armata perduta
Description: In the 4th century BC, 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. She was the mistress of Xenophon, a general in the army employed by Cyrus the Younger. A retelling of Xenophon's Anabasis, from the point of view of a woman following the Spartan mercenaries for the sake of the man she loves.
Notes: Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2008.

Translated from the Italian.