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Gates of Fire
Steven Pressfield
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An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
出版Random House Publishing Group, 2007-01-30
主題Fiction / Historical / GeneralFiction / War & MilitaryFiction / Thrillers / Military
ISBN05539040519780553904055
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=vcxlHkUGf_wC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this “powerful, historically accurate novel” (The New Yorker), the sole Spartan survivor recounts the bloody and epic battle of Thermopylae that decimated his fearsome society.

“Vivid and exciting . . . Pressfield gives the reader a perspective no ancient historian offers: a soldier’s-eye view.”—The New York Times Book Review

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. . . .