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Steven Pressfield is an amazing writer. I think he's the one who wrote about the Spartans and how ridiculously tough they were. I encountered the book as a pape
by p5a0u9l 5y ago
Steven Pressfield is an amazing writer. I think he's the one who wrote about the Spartans and how ridiculously tough they were. I encountered the book as a paperback left in a bin for soldiers to take and read during some dumb deployment. Not that one, but a small one to Poland. This was 2002.
- abhijat 5y agoYes I think it was called "Gates Of Fire". There is another book of his called "The Afghan Campaign" that I liked. It is about a greek soldier passing through Afghanistan for Alexander's campaign to reach India.
- b0rsuk 5y agoBret Deveraux is a PHD historian and a critic of Pressfield. He picks apart his argument for "universal warrior" and concludes it has an ideology behind it. The ideology is fascism. https://acoup.blog/2021/02/19/collections-the-universal-warrior-part-iii-the-cult-of-the-badass/comment-page-1/ https://acoup.blog/2021/02/19/collections-the-universal-warr... edit: the earlier version of my post used the word "agenda" instead of "ideology", but that was a bit unfair given Bret himself gives Pressfield benefit of doubt. This article specifically mentions Gates of Fire.
- ramblerman 5y agoWhat a tiring rant. For anyone that hasn’t read gates of fire I highly recommend it. It is historical fiction and a thrilling journey. You can make up your own mind about supposed hidden agendas, or …just enjoy a great story.
- mud_dauber 5y agoSeconded.