THE VIRTUES OF WAR
Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) ascended to the throne of Macedon at the age of twenty. He fought his greatest battles including the conquest of the mighty Persian Empire before he was twenty five and died a few months short of his thirty third birthday. still undefealted by any enemy. His reputation as a supreme warrior and leader of men is unsur passed in the annals of history. DOWNLOAD
TIDES OF WAR
By their epochal victories over the Persians in 490 and 480/479 B.C., Sparta and Athens established themselves as the preeminent powers in Greece and the Aegean—Sparta on land, Athens at sea. For half a century the states maintained a tenuous equilibrium. At hens these years inaugurated the Golden Age of Periclean democracy. The Parthenon was constructed, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides commenced performance; Socrates began to teach.
By 431, however, Athens' power had become too great for the free states of Greece to endure. War came—that struggle called by Thucydides “the greatest in history,” which lasted, as the oracle had foretold, thrice nine years and ended with the capitulation of Athens in 404. One man set his stamp upon this conflict, for good or ill, beyond all others. This was Alcibiades of Athens. Kinsman of Pericles, intimate of Socrates, he was, the ancient sources attest, the handsomest and most brilliant man of his era, as well as the most lawless. As a general he was never beaten.
Finally Tides of War is fiction, not history. I have taken liberties with events and chronology and interpreted historical characters, hopefully in a higher cause. For the book's faults and shortcomings the responsibility is entirely mine. DOWNLOAD
LAST OF THE AMAZONS
Steven Pressfield has gained a passionate worldwide following for his magnificent novels of ancient Greece, Gates of fire and Tides of war. in Last of the Amazons. Pressfield has surpassed himself, re-creating a vanished world in a brilliant novel that will delight his loyal readers and bring legions more to his singular and powerful restoration of the past.
In the time before horner, the legendary Theseus, King of Athens (an actual historical figure), set sail on a journey that brought him into the land of eal Kyrte, the "free people: a nation of proud female warriors whom the Greeks called "Amazons" The Amazons, ound to each other as lovers as well as fighters, distrusted the Greeks with their boasrful talk of civilization. So when the great war queen antiope fell in love with Theseus and fled with the Greeks the mighty Amazon nation rose up in rage. DOWNLOAD
GATES OF FIRE
Thousands of years ago, Herodotus and Plutarch immoralized Spartan society in their histories; but today, little is left of the ancient city or the social structure of this momentous culture. One of the few antiquarian marks of the civilization that has survived lies scores of miles away from Sparta, at a narrow Greek mountain pass called Thermopylae. It was here that three hundred of Sparta’s finest warriors held back the invading millions of the Persian empire and valiantly gave their lives in the selfless service of democracy and freedom. A simple engraved stone marks their burial ground. DOWNLOAD
A WALK TO REMEMBER
A SEASON FOR DEAD
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