Title: Remarkable insight into a uniquely martial people.
Product review: Pressfield has done some fine research not only into the military and social history of the period and the peoples, but he provides an unusually perceptive insight into a uniquely martial people, the Spartans. In Gates of Fire, Pressfield has set a standard of hoplological understanding and excellence that few specialist non-fiction writers achieve, never mind novelists. We congratulate him on an excellent piece of work on the Greek warrior, the hoplite.
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