[DonGlock26]

I am almost done with this book. It is a very entertaining book about the 300 Spartans and a few thousand Allies last stand against 250,000 Persians at the choke point called Themopylae(Hot Gates)in 480BC. It's fiction, but very well written. It captures the "Warrior Ethic" very well. I highly recommend it. The language can be crude in a "one of the boys" sense.



Don

[unit 900]

Second Donglock on this one. Read Gates of Fire some years ago and was educated, entertained and plain pleased. Really a must read if Molon Labe is in your vocabulary.

[fnfalman]

That was a badass book. Very well researched. The Tides of War was also good, albeit less action oriented but more of a big picture kind.

[jason10mm]

I keep waiting for a movie based on Thermopylae. I heard Michael Mann was looking at it once (or maybe planning a movie based on Millers "The 300"). Anyone see the "Decisive Battles" based on this battle? Pretty good, they even interviewed Pressfield.

[DonGlock26]

Yep. it was pretty good. A "Gates of Fire" movie would be awesome. Pretty gory though. I woundn't mind a two day TV movie.