Steven Pressfield - Fiction

Fiction

  • The Legend of Bagger Vance (see The Legend of Bagger Vance (film) for the movie), about a young man trying to come to terms with his spiritual demons through the medium of golf (1995)
  • Gates of Fire, about the Battle of Thermopylae (1998)
  • Tides of War, A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War (2000)
  • Last of the Amazons, in which Theseus, the legendary King of Athens, sets sail to the north coast of the Black Sea inhabited by a race of female warriors (2002)
  • The Virtues of War, about Alexander the Great (2004)
  • The Afghan Campaign, about Alexander the Great's conquests in Afghanistan (2006)
  • Killing Rommel (2008), a fictionalized account of a patrol of the British Long Range Desert Group during the North African Campaign of World War II.
  • The Profession (2011), Pressfield's first book set in the future, where military force is for hire everywhere. Oil companies, multinational corporations and banks employ powerful, cutting-edge mercenary armies to control global chaos and protect their riches.

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    “It is with fiction as with religion: it should present another world, and yet one to which we feel the tie.”
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