Authors: Steven Pressfield
ISBN-13: 9780553381399, ISBN-10: 0553381393
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: August 2001
Edition: Reprint
Steven Pressfield is author of the international bestseller Gates of Fire, an epic novel of the battle of Thermopylae, and The Legend of Bagger Vance. He lives in Los Angeles.
Yoked together, the great warrior-hero Alcibiades and the legendary city-state of Athens were virtually unbeatable; but divided from Athens, Alcibiades went on to lead Sparta and Persia to glory. This epic novel tells the story of the proud, hardheaded soldier whose heroics and passions fueled the Peloponnesian War and whose fatal flaws left him exiled from all factions at the end of his life.
Pressfield’s battlefield scenes rank with the most convincing ever written.