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    <body><![CDATA[I love historical fiction and I especially love historical fiction set in the classical world.  Even if it doesn't involve lots of bloodshed, which it usually does.  I liked this book and found it very entertaining but I think maybe the dude shoulda wrote a trilogy or something because it felt awful...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29015269">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first taste of Michael Curtis Ford and it had me hooked. A great look at this historic march by the Greeks through the middle east. You'll feel like you're actually there. Ranks right up there with Pressfield's best. [Rating: Excellent]]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Based on Xenophon's 'Anabasis.'  Did not hold my interest.  I will stick with the original.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a solid historical novel, but wasn't quite what I expected. I had thought there would be more focus on the &quot;anabasis&quot; itself, as well as upon either Xenophon or the Xenophon-narrator relationship. (The narrator is Xenophon's lifelong slave/servant.) But the narrator is himself the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34570854">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Xenephon and the Greeks were a tough lot.  They survived because of a deeply ingrained system of discipline and dedication to organization.  This a tale about an amazing march of survival after betrayal.  A lot of suffering in the book but worth the read.]]></body>
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