Gates of Fire
by Steven Pressfield
Buy on AmazonFinally, for dialogue (or anything else for that matter), one cannot top the perfection of Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin books and the historical-military romances of Steven Pressfield, which are just flat-out delightful. Consider the character of the Assyrian sutler who attaches himself to the Spartans en route to Thermopylae in Pressfield’s Gates of Fire . He prefaces his utterances with an Ionian-accented ‘Weck up to thees!’ — meaning ‘Wake up to this!’ — to my taste, the literary equiv...
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"Finally, for dialogue (or anything else for that matter), one cannot top the perfection of Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin books and the historical-military romances of Steven Pressfield, which are just flat-out delightful. Consider the character of the Assyrian sutler who attaches himself to the Spartans en route to Thermopylae in Pressfield’s Gates of Fire . He prefaces his utterances with an Ionian-accented ‘Weck up to thees!’ — meaning ‘Wake up to this!’ — to my taste, the literary equiv..."
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