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.From the Paperback edition.. Theirs was a suicide mission,
| Title | : | Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae |
| Author | : | Steven Pressfield |
| Rating | : | 4.97 (246 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 055338368X |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-8-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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.
From the Paperback edition.. 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. The national bestseller!
At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong
For me, the book started out slowly as the numerous characters from the series are introduced and the highly sexual, violent world is introduced with its particular rules. Everything is broken down into easy to understand language, and there are really great illustrations. She shows how practitioners appropriate, transform, or circumvent the practices impelled by these institutions, destabilizing such categories as medicine, culture, science, symptom, and self, even as they deploy them in clinical practice. Dear Mark, Having read a previous book of yours I decided to take on the mighty Whaling Book -- I personaly do not like sailing or the ocean, or descriptive whale murders and the book was 500 pages -- of very tiny print --- several marks against you already. Steven Pressfield is a great writer, but with Gates of Fire, he reaches a pitch of sublimity that rivals the gods. Graduates of physical therapy programs, yoga practitioners, and dancers will recognize many of the moves. But the majority of the time, I barely liked him. FINISH WHAT YA STARTED. JoAnn shows you step by step how to become a mentally stronger, more focused competitor in sports and in life. All opinions contained herein are my own.. Aud wants to stay in the woods, but her lover made her promise to stay in the world, to stay connected in s
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. Thus reads an ancient stone at Thermopylae in northern Greece, the site of one of the world's greatest battles for freedom. The forerank archers were literally bowled off their feet, their wall-like shields caving in upon them like fortress redoubts under the assault of the ram. "War is work, not mystery," Xeo laments.
--Marianne Painter. Here, in 480 B.C., on a narrow mountain pass above the crystalline Aegean, 300 Spartan knights and their allies faced the massive forces of Xerxes, King of Persia. Pressfield's descriptions of war are breathtaking in their immediacy. There he is drafted into the elite Spartan guard and rigorously schooled in the art of war--an education brutal enough to destroy half the students, but (oddly enough) not without humor: "The more miserable the conditions, the more convulsing the jokes became, or at least that's how it seems," Xeo recalls. Xeo, the sole Spartan survivor of Thermopylae, has been captured by the Persians, and Xerxes himself presses his young captive to reveal how his tiny cohort kept more than 100,000 Persians at bay for
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