Anabasis or The March Up Country is an autobiographical history by Xenophon, a professional soldier and writer from Ancient Greece. This is not a work of fiction, nor is it even a work from any millennium close to our own. It is extremely dry, the text is old fashioned, and everything is said so curtly that you can easily miss things. Definitely do not go into this expecting an engagingly written, Dan Brown-style experience. But if you do give this a read, it is thrilling […]