Gates of Fire : An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae - Steven Pressfield

Gates of Fire

An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

By: Steven Pressfield

Paperback | 27 September 2005

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Steven Pressfield brings the battle of Thermopylae to brilliant life."-Pat Conroy

At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army.

Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history-one that would not end until the rocks were awash with blood, leaving only one gravely injured Spartan squire to tell the tale. . . .
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"Steven Pressfield brings the battle of Thermopylae to brilliant life, and he does for that war what Charles Frazier did for the Civil War in Cold Mountain." --Pat Conroy "Gripping and swashbuckling...an exciting, romantic, star-crossed story." --The New York Times

"An incredibly gripping, moving, and literate work of art. Rarely does an author manage to re-create a moment in history with such mastery, authority, and psychological insight." --Nelson DeMille

"A novel that is intricate and arresting and, once begun, almost impossible to put down." --Daily News

"A timeless epic of man and war...Pressfield has created a new classic deserving of a place beside the very best of the old." --Stephen Coonts

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