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Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae » (Reissue)

Book cover image of Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield

Authors: Steven Pressfield
ISBN-13: 9780553580532, ISBN-10: 0553580531
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: September 1999
Edition: Reissue

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Author Biography: Steven Pressfield

Steven Pressfield is the author of The Legend of Bagger Vance. a mystical golf novel currently under option with Robert Redford and Jake Eberts (Dances with Wolves, Driving Miss Daisy) for feature film adaptation.  He makes his home in Malibu, California.

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The national bestseller!

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....

Richard Bernstein

Gripping and swashbuckling...an excitingromanticstar-crossed story. —The New York Times

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