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Cyropaedia
thumb|Xenophon's Cyropaedia, 1803 English edition.
The Cyropaedia, sometimes spelled Cyropedia, is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, the founder of Persia's Achaemenid Empire. It was written around 370 BC by Xenophon, the Athenian-born soldier, historian, and student of Socrates. The Latinized title Cyropaedia derives from the Greek Kúrou paideía (), meaning The Education of Cyrus. Aspects of it would become a model for medieval writers of the genre mirrors for princes. In turn, the Cyropaedia strongly influenced the most well-known but atypical of these, Machiavelli's The Princ
The Time of the Hero
novel by Mario Vargas Llosa

Legend
novel by David Gemmell
Marlborough: His Life and Times
book by Winston Churchill