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The national bestseller!
At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army.
Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history--one that would not end until the rocks were awash with blood, leaving only one gravely injured Spartan squire to tell the tale....
From the Paperback edition.
用户评论
“那天，我们在科林斯地峡的三岔路口分别，她抓住我的手：‘亲爱的表弟，这是否是永别？’ 我一言不发，注视着她的背影消失在通往雅典的小路上，在那座繁华的都市，她会过上梦寐以求的生活。然后我走向南面那条路，走向苍茫的伯罗奔尼撒半岛和斯巴达城。”
Steven Pressfield的这本Fire of Gates写的非常好，在人物塑造和故事发展方面更是非常精彩，难怪连希腊人也会爱上这个讲述他们自己故事的外国人。非常推荐这本小说。
300个斯巴达究极战士的牺牲，避免了西方文明的夭折
语言学习价值很高，但感觉古典历史题材不太适合这种电影式的非线性叙事