Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae, (Paperback)

from RaceBannon42

I went to see the movie "300" on opening weekend. I thought it was very well done. I left craving more Spartan bad-assery, and seeing how Steven Pressfield's epic novel had been sitting in my to be read pile for awhile, I thought it was the perfect time to read Gates of Fire. Both "300" and Gates...

from Tripp0311

Easy to read. Solid build. Great book

from Atomicmutant

Like a clanking, clamorous machine of war, this book inexorably engulfs you. As inspiring as a vivid standard planted on the hill overlooking a battleground, as detailed as ancient armorwork, as emotional and gripping as the people who fought in these ancient struggles, I found this book almost i...

from mrtall

Why didn't they base the movie '300' on this superbly-imagined novel? It's vivid, well-constructed and and moving. Also, those Spartans were badasses. The only black mark: Pressfield wants to mix faux-epic and down-home dictions in his characters' dialog; sometimes it works, sometimes it really d...

from LisaMaria_C

It took a while for me to get into this story, but I did love the novel by the end. The story is framed as the first person account of a "squire" of the heavy infantry of the famous 300 of Sparta at Thermophylae, where in 480 BC a few thousand Greeks held off hundreds of thousands of invading Per...