Amy Baumann (1922–2009)
Author of Puritan & cavalier : the English Civil War
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- Canonical name
- Baumann, Amy
- Legal name
- Baumann, Amy
- Other names
- Barbary, James
Brown, Alexis - Birthdate
- 1922
- Date of death
- 2009-03-29
- Gender
- female
- Short biography
- Amy Baumann (née Brown) was born in rural Shropshire in 1922. During the Second World War she served in the Women's Land Army and subsequently trained and worked as a teacher. In the late 1950s she settled in Formentera with her husband, the poet and historian Jack Beeching (1922–2001), and their two children, moving on to San Vicente in Ibiza several years later. She also wrote two adventure novels for children, Treasure in Devils' Bay (1962) and Schooner on the Rocks (1966), and translated various books from the Spanish, Dutch and German, including Alexander Exquemelin's The Buccaneers of America.
In the late 1970s she moved to Fife, where she worked for 10 years at the Scottish Fisheries Museum. - Birthplace
- Shropshire
- Places of residence
- Formentera
San Vicente, Ibiza
Fife, Scotland - Place of death
- Wigtown, Scotland
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I read this book as a young boy, and loved it. The story follows Leon of Cos, a Greek physician's apprentice in Persia as he follows Xenophon and ten thousand Greek mercenaries out of Asia. The book is based upon the true account of Xenophon - a Greek hoplite who, along with numerous other veterans of the Peloponnesian Wars was hired to fight in a Persian civil war. When their employer was killed, and their generals treacherously murdered, the ten thousand Greek soldiers had little choice show more but to fight their way a thousand miles to the sea, and passage home. Xenophon, who was elected as a new general to lead the troops, wrote about his experiences after he returned to Greece. I have read that Alexander the Great read Xenophon's accounts before engaging in his invasion of Persia.
Leon of Cos and Nika, the Armenian girl he befriends both accompany the soldiers on their march - Nika to return to Armenia, and Leon to return to Greece, the native land he left when he was too young to remember. Both of these characters are fictitious, but are well-drawn and give a good hook, with their questions allowing Xenophon can explain how and why the Greeks do things in a particular way. The book does a good job at showing history, without devolving into dry lectures. show less
Leon of Cos and Nika, the Armenian girl he befriends both accompany the soldiers on their march - Nika to return to Armenia, and Leon to return to Greece, the native land he left when he was too young to remember. Both of these characters are fictitious, but are well-drawn and give a good hook, with their questions allowing Xenophon can explain how and why the Greeks do things in a particular way. The book does a good job at showing history, without devolving into dry lectures. show less
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- Rating
- 3.8
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