Advantages: Unique narration, Historical accuracy with interesting fiction Disadvantages: Some heavy themes
In 480 BC the Persian Empire was once again trying to invade ancient Greece. Under the reign of King Xerxes, an invincible army of a recorded 2 million was marching downwards to enslave all Greeks. An elite force of three hundred Spartans tackled the suic ...
Advantages: A well plotted novelisation of a remarkable event Disadvantages: Reading once is not enough!
...As classical history has never really appealled to me i was surprised to find myself reading Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire. But read it i did and im happily wiser having done so.
This isnt the type of novel that feel one can pick up on a rainy aft ...
Advantages: Gripping and informative. Disadvantages: A tragic story.
This is possibly the most thought provoking book I have ever read. From the very beginning to the end I was gripped by every page. It tells the tale of a Spartan squire, enrolled into the service of one of the 300 Spartan warriors called upon to halt ...
Advantages: Amazing Disadvantages: Keep re-reading it
I read this book on my first trip to Athens in 2000 and ended up reading it twice. I have now read this book at least 15 times and it remains an amazing read.
I spend alot of time reading and i have yet to encounter a book as compelling as this one on ...
Advantages: Homer himself would be proud Disadvantages: The tragedy that is human self sacrifice
Gates of Fire recounts the classic true to life tale from Greek history of when, threatened by an invading Persian army of somewhere between 200,000 and 2,000,000 (depending on which historical source you believe), the Greek city state Sparta dispatched 3 ...
