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Gates of Fire

Gates of Fire

by Steven Pressfield

  • LITERATURE
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 440 PAGES

In this historical potboiler, Steven Pressfield dramatically recreates the events of the Battle of Thermopylae, where a handful of Spartan knights held off Xerxes and the Persian army for a week before being slaughtered. A page-turner.  (GRE127, $7.99)


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