Killing rommel- int`l, Steven Pressfield

Автор: Pressfield, Steven
Название: The Virtues of War
ISBN: 0739314785 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739314784
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1920 р.
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Автор: Pressfield, Steven
Название: The Afghan Campaign
ISBN: 038551641X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385516419
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1599 р.
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Автор: Pressfield, Steven
Название: Gates of Fire
ISBN: 0385492510 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385492515
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 2564 р.
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Описание: Thousands of years ago, Herodotus and Plutarch immortalized 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 there 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.
Inspired by this stone and intrigued by the lore of Sparta, author Steven Pressfield has brilliantly combined scholarship with storytelling.  Narrated by the sole survivor of the epic battle--a squire in the Spartan heavy infantry--"Gates of Fire" is a mesmerizing depiction of one man's indoctrination into the Spartan way of life and death, and of the legendary men and women who gave the culture an immortal gravity.
Culminating in the electrifying and horrifying epic battle, "Gates of Fire" weaves history, mystery, and heartbreaking romance into a literary page-turner that brings the Homeric tradition into the twenty-first century.

Автор: Pressfield Steven
Название: Killing Rommel
ISBN: 0767926161 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767926164
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1026 р.
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Описание: Steven Pressfield s quintet of acclaimed, bestselling novels of ancient warfare "Gates of Fire, Tides of War, Last of the Amazons, The Virtues of Wa, r" and "The Afghan Campaign" have earned him a reputation as a master chronicler of military history, a supremely literate and engaging storyteller, and an author with acute insight into the minds of men in battle. In "Killing Rommel "Pressfield extends his talents to the modern world with a WWII tale based on the real-life exploits of the Long Range Desert Group, an elite British special forces unit that took on the German Afrika Korps and its legendary commander, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, "the Desert Fox."
Autumn 1942. Hitler s legions have swept across Europe; France has fallen; Churchill and the English are isolated on their island. In North Africa, Rommel and his Panzers have routed the British Eighth Army and stand poised to overrun Egypt, Suez, and the oilfields of the Middle East. With the outcome of the war hanging in the balance, the British hatch a desperate plan send a small, highly mobile, and heavily armed force behind German lines to strike the blow that will stop the Afrika Korps in its tracks. Narrated from the point of view of a young lieutenant, "Killing Rommel" brings to life the flair, agility, and daring of this extraordinary secret unit, the Long Range Desert Group. Stealthy and lethal as the scorpion that serves as their insignia, they live by their motto: "Non Vi Sed Arte" "Not by Strength, by Guile" as they gather intelligence, set up ambushes, and execute raids. "Killing Rommel "chronicles the tactics, weaponry, and specialized skills needed for combat, under extreme desert conditions. And it captures the camaraderie of this band of brothers as they perform the acts of courage and cunning crucial to the Allies victory in North Africa.
As in all of his previous novels, Pressfield powerfully renders the drama and intensity of warfare, the bonds of men in close combat, and the surprising human emotions and frailties that come into play on the battlefield. A vivid and authoritative depiction of the desert war, "Killing Rommel" brilliantly dramatizes an aspect of World War II that hasn t been in the limelight since "Patton." Combining scrupulous historical detail and accuracy with remarkable narrative momentum, this galvanizing novel heralds Pressfield s gift for bringing more recent history to life."

Автор: Pressfield, Steven
Название: Tides of war
ISBN: 0553813323 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553813326
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: His name was Alcibiades, kinsman of Pericles and protege of Socrates. Undefeated on the battlefield, Alcibiades fled to Sparta after being forced to leave Athens when a trumped-up charge of treason was made against him. There, he was instrumental in guiding its legendary army to triumph.

Автор: Pressfield, Steven
Название: Alexander
ISBN: 0553814354 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553814354
Издательство: Random House
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Описание: He ascended to the throne of Macedon at the age of nineteen. He died at the age of thirty-two, undefeated by any enemy. We remember him as Alexander the Great... This novel tells the story of this legendary colossus of the ancient world who was driven - and ultimately undone - by his insatiable lust for glory.

Автор: Pressfield, Steven
Название: Last of the amazons
ISBN: 0553813862 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553813869
Издательство: Random House
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Цена: 1075 р.
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Описание: In 1250 BC, Theseus, king of Athens, encountered a nation of proud, passionate warrior women the Greeks called "Amazons". Bound to each other as lovers as well as fighters, the Amazons were outraged when their queen fell in love with Theseus, and raised a terrible army to march on Athens.

Автор: Pressfield, Steven
Название: Gates of fire
ISBN: 0553812165 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553812169
Издательство: Random House
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Цена: 691 р.
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Описание: An epic heroic novel, set in Ancient Greece, and based on the true story of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. This is the story of Xeones, the only survivor of 300 Spartan warriors ordered to delay for as long as possible the million-strong invading army of King Xerxes of Persia.

Автор: Pressfield, Steven
Название: Alexander
ISBN: 0385607709 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385607704
Издательство: Transworld Publishers
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Цена: 1045 р.
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Описание: In this volume, Steven Pressfield brings his touch to the story of one of the true colossus of the ancient world, Alexander the Great.

Автор: Pressfield, Steven
Название: Killing Rommel
ISBN: 0385519702 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780385519700
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1599 р.
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Автор: Pressfield, Steven
Название: Gates of Fire
ISBN: 055338368X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553383683
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1090 р.
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Описание: NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "An incredibly gripping, moving, and literate work of art, rarely does an author manage to re-create a moment in history with such mastery, authority, and psychological insight."--Nelson DeMille

At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army.

Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history--one that would not end until the rocks were awash with blood, leaving only one gravely injured Spartan squire to tell the tale. . . .

"A novel that is intricate and arresting and, once begun, almost impossible to put down."--Daily News

"A timeless epic of man and war . . . Pressfield has created a new classic deserving a place beside the very best of the old."--Stephen Coonts

Автор: Pressfield, Steven
Название: The Afghan Campaign
ISBN: 0767922387 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780767922388
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1090 р.
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Описание: 2,300 years ago an unbeaten army of the West invaded the homeland of a fierce Eastern tribal foe. This is one soldier's story . . .

The bestselling novelist of ancient warfare returns with a riveting historical novel that re-creates Alexander the Great's invasion of the Afghan kingdoms in 330 b.c.
In a story that might have been ripped from today's combat dispatches, Steven Pressfield brings to life the confrontation between an invading Western army and fierce Eastern warriors determined at all costs to defend their homeland. Narrated by an infantryman in Alexander's army, The Afghan Campaign explores the challenges, both military and moral, that Alexander and his soldiers face as they embark on a new type of war and are forced to adapt to the methods of a ruthless foe that employs terror and insurgent tactics. An edge-of-your-seat adventure, The Afghan Campaign once again demonstrates Pressfield's profound understanding of the hopes and desperation of men in battle and of the historical realities that continue to influence our world.