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  • 528

    Pages
  • 9780553812169

    ISBN
  • 110 mm

    Width
  • 176 mm

    Height
  • 366 gram

    Weight
  • PAPERBACK

    Binding
  • 1 FEBRUARY 2000

    Publish Date
  • 31 mm

    Spine Width

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    Description

    Thousands of years ago, Herodotus & Plutarch immortalized Spartan society in their histories. Today, little is left of the ancient city or the social structure of this culture. One of the few antiquarian marks of the civilization that has survived lies scores of miles away from Sparta, at a narrow Greek mountain pass called Thermopylae. It was there that three hundred Thousands of years ago, Herodotus & Plutarch immortalized Spartan society in their histories. Today, little is left of the ancient city or the social structure of this culture. One of the few antiquarian marks of the civilization that has...  Read More

    About the Author

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    Steven Pressfield

    I was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1943 to a Navy father and mother.

    I graduated from Duke University in 1965.

    In January of 1966, when I was on the bus leaving Parris Island as a freshly-minted Marine, I looked back and thought there was at least one good thing about this departure. No matter what happens to me for the rest of my life, no one can ever send me back to this freakin place again.

    Forty years later, to my surprise and gratification, I am far more closely bound to the young men of the Marine Corps and to all other dirt-eating, ground-pounding outfits than I could ever have imagined.

    GATES OF FIRE is one reason. Dog-eared paperbacks of this tale of the ancient Spartans have circulated throughout platoons of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan since the first days of the invasions. E-mails come in by hundreds. GATES OF FIRE is on the Commandant of the Marine Corps Reading list. It is taught at West Point and Annapolis and at the Marine Corps Basic School at Quantico. TIDES OF WAR is on the curriculum of the Naval War College.

    From 2nd Battalion/6th Marines, which calls itself the Spartans, to ODA 316 of the Special Forces, whose forearms are tattooed with the lambda of Lakedaemon, todays young warriors find a bond to their ancient precursors in the historical narratives of these novels.

    My struggles to earn a living as a writer (it took seventeen years to get the first paycheck) are detailed in my 2002 book, THE WAR OF ART.

    I have worked as an advertising copywriter, schoolteacher, tractor-trailer driver, bartender, oilfield roustabout and attendant in a mental hospital. I have picked fruit in Washington state and written screenplays in Tinseltown.

    With the publication of THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE in 1995, I became a writer of books once and for all.

    My writing philosophy is, not surprisingly, a kind of warrior code — internal rather than external — in which the enemy is ide

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