12 plates 20 battle plans 2 maps 6 x 9 Xenophon (c. 435-354BC) was a celebrated Greek historian, essayist and military commander. Born in the last, desperate years of the crumbling Athenian empire, he witnessed her fall from grace during the Peloponnesian War. It was the absence of respected command among the Greek forces-that led to the Greek vote of confidence in Xenophon as one of their new generals. He was ultimately made Commander-in-Chief. Xenophon"s writing is a "veritable treasure-house" of examples of the military practice of the ancient world. Godfrey Hutchinson is a classical historian and an expert on Greek warfare and leadership between 411-362 BC.