Xenophon's Anabasis

The first thing I'll be reading in this project is Xenophon's Anabasis. Xenophon was a Greek soldier in a group of mercinaries that hired out to a Persian prince to help in a family war. They wound up getting their butts kicked and Xenophon rallied the troups and led ten-thousand men in a fighting retreat through a thousand miles of enemy territory to get back home. The Anabasis is the story of the retreat of the 10000. About 70 years later, Alexander the Great used the Anabasis as a field guide in his expedition into Persia. Should be interesting reading...