01-07-2008, 09:01 PM
For those who aren't keen on Pressfield's style, but like the subject, there are a variety of books by Mary Renault, some of Alfred Duggan's books ( though he wrote mostly mediaeval), Gore Vidal's 'Creation' and 'Julian'....and for those who like Sparta 'Goat Song' by Frank Yerby, which I particularly liked.....(it is set in the Peloponnesian War)...and for another modern writer, Robert Harris' Roman novels'Pompeii' and 'Imperium'......
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
