By Steven Pressfield
The nationwide bestseller!
At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain cross in northern Greece, the dreaded and popular Spartan infantrymen stood 300 powerful. Theirs was once a suicide challenge, to carry the go opposed to the invading thousands of the effective Persian army.
Day after bloody day they withstood the negative onslaught, paying for time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born right into a cult of religious braveness, actual patience, and unequalled conflict ability, the Spartans will be remembered for the best army stand in history--one that will now not finish until eventually the rocks have been awash with blood, leaving just one gravely injured Spartan squire to inform the tale....
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