Gates of Fire (学校和图书馆装订)

分类: 图书,进口原版书,Literature & Fiction(文学与虚构类),Genre Fiction(类型小说),Historical,
品牌: Steven Pressfield
基本信息出版社:SAN VAL INC (1999年9月1日)学校和图书馆装订:480页ISBN:0613998200条形码:9780613998208产品尺寸及重量:17.5 x 10.9 x 3 cm ; 295 gASIN:0613998200
商品描述内容简介In 480 B.C., two million Persian invaders came to the mountain pass of Thermopylae in eastern Greece. They were met by three hundred of the finest warriors Sparta could muster. There, the Greek loyalists battled for six days, down to the last man. The time they bought enabled their countrymen to rally and defeat the Persians later that year. This is their story.媒体推荐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....