In the Sunday Times bestseller Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield tells the breathtaking story of the legendary Spartans: the men and women who helped shaped our history and have themselves become as immortal as their gods. 'Breathtakingly brilliant . . . this is a work of rare genius. Savour it!' DAVID GEMMELL 'A tale worthy of Homer, a timeless epic of man and war, exquisitely researched and boldy written. Pressfield has created a new classic' STEPHEN COONTS 'A really impressive book - imaginatively framed, historically ...
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In the Sunday Times bestseller Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield tells the breathtaking story of the legendary Spartans: the men and women who helped shaped our history and have themselves become as immortal as their gods. 'Breathtakingly brilliant . . . this is a work of rare genius. Savour it!' DAVID GEMMELL 'A tale worthy of Homer, a timeless epic of man and war, exquisitely researched and boldy written. Pressfield has created a new classic' STEPHEN COONTS 'A really impressive book - imaginatively framed, historically detailed and a really gripping narrative' ***** Reader review 'Beautifully written and a great joy to read' ***** Reader review ************************** Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, That here, obedient to their laws, we lie. 480 BC: At a bleak pass in a far-flung corner of eastern Greece, three hundred Spartan warriors faced the army of King Xerxes of Persia, a massive force rumoured to be over a million strong. Their orders were simple: to delay the enemy for as long as possible in order to buy time for the main Greek armies to mobilize. For six days the Spartans held the invaders at bay. In the final hours - their shields broken, swords and spears shattered - they fought with their bare hands before being overwhelmed . . . It was battle that would become synonymous with extraordinary courage, heroism and self-sacrifice. It was a battle called Thermopylae.
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Pressfield grips you and keeps you engaged until the very end. If you are reading a novel to help you to fall asleep at night this is not the book. You will not be able to put it down.
The story of the 300 Spartans holding off the Persian advance upon Greece at Thermopylae has been told in many ways. Pressfield tells the story through the eyes of a Spartan slave who survives the battle and is explaining to Xerxes, the Persian King, the reason the Spartans fight the way they fight. His story is a series of flashbacks which tell the reader about life in Sparta and the amazing fight at the Gates of Fire. It is a novel, so Pressfield can lend some poetic license. However, my research shows that he accurately depicts the history of Sparta and the battle at Thermopylae.
When I read the final lines and then read the lines of the epitaph to the Spartans, "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie." emotion flooded through me.
If you are sixty years old you cannot help but admire the fact that King Leonidas, at 60 yrs, lead the Spartans in this final stand. These Spartans stood together and fought and died for freedom.
