Steven Pressfield, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-385-50098-2
Writing about ancient Greece with rich historical detail, passion and drama, Pressfield has previously dramatized the battle of Thermopylae (Gates of Fire) and the Peloponnesian War (Tides of War). Here, he steps further back in time, to 1250 B.C.,...
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Steven Pressfield, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-50099-9
"I have always been a soldier. I have known no other life." Esteemed historical novelist Pressfield (Gates of Fire
; Tides of War
) crawls inside the brave heart of Alexander the Great in this chronicle of the king's bloody and...
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Steven Pressfield, Author Harper Perennial $13 (272p) ISBN 978-0-380-72751-3
Set in the 1930s, this somewhat mystical novel concerns a pair of golf legends, a war hero and a mysterious and gifted caddie. (June)
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Steven Pressfield, Author Doubleday Books $29.95 (386p) ISBN 978-0-385-49251-5
Pressfield's first novel, The Legend of Bagger Vance, was about golf, but here he puts aside his putter and picks up sword and shield as he cleverly and convincingly portrays the clash between Greek hoplites and Persian heavy infantry in the most...
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Steven Pressfield, Author William Morrow & Company $22 (272p) ISBN 978-0-688-14048-9
Improbable as it may sound, this allegorical first novel by an L.A. screenwriter reads like an F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar reciting a medley culled from the Bhagavadgita, Huck Finn and The Tempest: it has gray-flannel charm, a thick vein of...
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Steven Pressfield, Author Doubleday Books $24.95 (295p) ISBN 978-0-385-51970-0
After five novels about conflict in ancient times (Gates of War, etc.), Pressfield effortlessly gives fresh life to wartime romance and the rigors of combat in a superior WWII thriller. Framed as the memoir of a British officer, the book is based on
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Steven Pressfield, Author Broadway Books $24.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-385-49252-2
After Pressfield's stunning 1998 best-seller, Gates of Fire, which documented the Spartans' heroic last stand at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C., comes this follow-up epic novel of the Peloponnesian War, as Athens and Sparta slug it out for...
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Steven Pressfield. Crown, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-52873-3
Set in 2032, Pressfield's entertaining, thought-provoking thriller looks at an America past its apogee of moral power as it continues to face opponents whose barbarism threatens to make civilized conduct impossible. Old soldier James Salter, a...
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Steven Pressfield. Penguin/Sentinel, $29.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-59523-091-1
The 1967 Six Day War radically changed the balance of power between Israel and its neighbors, and, according to Moshe Dayan, inaugurated the image of the warrior Jew. Excerpting from 63 hours of interviews with Israeli soldiers, Pressfield (The War...
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Steven Pressfield, Author, Derek Jacobi, Read by Random House Audio $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-52731-5
Perhaps the Peloponnesian War, which lasted 27 years and featured an epic list of people and places, just doesn't lend itself to the six-hour audio format, for not even renowned Shakespearean actor Jacobi's reading gives this novel the sense of...
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Steven Pressfield. Norton, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-324-00289-5
Set in 2034, when global warming has pushed humankind to the brink of extinction, this un-put-downable apocalyptic thriller from Pressfield (The Profession) is steeped in Jewish eschatology—specifically the legend of the Thirty-Six Righteous Men,...
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Steven Pressfield. Norton, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-393-54097-0
Pressfield’s considerable gifts for historical military fiction, displayed in such superior works as Gates of Fire, are nowhere in evidence in this ponderous account of Greek mercenary Telamon of Arcadia’s mission to preserve and disseminate the...
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