Steven Pressfield

Gates of Fire er en roman fra 1998 skrevet av Steven Pressfield som gjenforteller slaget ved Thermopylene gjennom Xeones, en spartansk væpner og den eneste overlevende i slaget. Ved Thermopylene satte de allierte greske nasjonene ut en liten styrke på mellom fire og syv tusen greske tunge infanterister mot den …

The War of Art is a 2002 non-fiction book written by the American author Steven Pressfield. Within it, Pressfield highlights the different forms of Resistance faced by artists, entrepreneurs, athletes, and others, who are trying to break through its barriers. The book has a follow-up titled Do The Work. The Amazon …

Tides of War is a novel by Steven Pressfield, chronicling the Peloponnesian War. Similar to Pressfield's previous classical history novel, Gates of Fire, Tides of War is presented as a Frame narrative, wherein the primary narrator, an Athenian soldier named Polemides, recounts his story to an Athenian landowner named …

The Virtues of War is a 2004 historical fiction novel by Steven Pressfield that follows the life of Alexander the Great, told through the eyes of a Hellenic-Persian scribe serving under him during his campaigns into India. Alexander is recounting the events of his life to the young scholar just before he dies in …

The Afghan Campaign is a historical novel by the American writer Steven Pressfield. It was first published in 2006 by the Broadway division of Random House. It is the story of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Afghan kingdoms in 330 BC through the eyes of Matthias, a young soldier from Macedonia, who narrates the …

Last of the Amazons is a novel by Steven Pressfield that recounts the legend of Theseus and the Amazons, set before the threshold of recorded history, a generation before the Trojan War. The novel's theme is the conflict between the nascent Greek civilization and the savage but free Amazons of the Eastern steppes, …

In the Depression year of 1931, on the golf links at Krewe Island off Savannah's windswept shore, two legends of the game—Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen—meet for a mesmerizing thirty-six-hole showdown. Another golfer will also compete—a troubled local war hero, once a champion, who comes with his mentor and caddie, the …

Killing Rommel is a 2008 historical fiction novel by Steven Pressfield set in North Africa during World War Two. The book follows the actions of the British Long Range Desert Group.