Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae - Softcover

Pressfield, Steven

Softcover

ISBN 10: 055338368X ISBN 13: 9780553383683

Verlag: Bantam, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Texto en inglés. Tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Como nuevo. 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 unmatch

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Críticas:

"Steven Pressfield brings the battle of Thermopylae to brilliant life, and he does for that war what Charles Frazier did for the Civil War in Cold Mountain."
--Pat Conroy

"Gripping and swashbuckling...an exciting, romantic, star-crossed story."
--The New York Times

"An incredibly gripping, moving, and literate work of art. Rarely does an author manage to re-create a moment in history with such mastery, authority, and psychological insight."
--Nelson DeMille

"A novel that is intricate and arresting and, once begun, almost impossible to put down."
--Daily News

"A timeless epic of man and war...Pressfield has created a new classic deserving of a place beside the very best of the old."
--Stephen Coonts

Reseña del editor:

An ambitious, cinematic historical novel chronicles the battle of three hundred Spartan warriors against a huge force of Persian soldiers in 480 B.C. against the background of life in ancient Sparta and its extraordinary culture. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Bantam
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 055338368X
• ISBN 13: 9780553383683
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400