Gates of Fire

By - Pressfield, Steven

Floor - Floor 3

Published - Doubleday, New York, 1998

ISBN 10 - 0553580531

ISBN 13 - 9780553580532

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Greece

Shelf No - 5

Call Number - 813.54 PRE

Physical Description - 386 pages : maps ; 25 cm

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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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