TY - BOOK AU - Iggulden, Conn TI - Falcon of sparta SN - 9780718181475 U1 - Fiction IGG-C PY - 2018/// CY - India PB - Penguin Books KW - Fiction N1 - In the Ancient World, one army was feared above all others. This is their story. When Cyrus, brother to the Great King of Persia, attempts to overthrow his reckless sibling, he employs a Greek mercenary army of 10,000 soldiers. When this army becomes stranded as a result of the unexpected death of Cyrus, and then witnesses the treacherous murder of its entire officer corps, despair over takes them. One man, Xenophon, rallies the Greeks. As he attempts to lead them to freedom across 1,500 miles of hostile territory seething with adversaries, 10,000 men set off on the long way home ER -