Pressfield, Steven

Examines the internal obstacles that prevent people from achieving success. Shows how to identify, defeat, and unlock inner barriers to creativity which can then eliminate procrastination and help people get things done.

A young man chooses to join the Spartan army, and just as he grows accustomed to his new way of life he is forced to fight in the battle of Thermopylae where all of his fellow soldiers are killed, and he is the only man left to carry on the Spartan traditions.

A golf novel in which Bagger Vance, a caddy who holds the secret of the Authentic Swing, has a profound influence on the life of a young boy.

Pressfield tells the story of how 300 Spartans held off the Persian Empire at Thermopylae through the eyes of the loan survivor who ran to Marathon to pronounce the victory.

A young man chooses to join the Spartan army, and just as he grows accustomed to his new way of life he is forced to fight in the battle of Thermopylae, where all of his fellow soldiers are killed, and he is the only man left to carry on the Spartan traditions.

A golf novel in which Bagger Vance, a caddy who holds the secret of the Authentic Swing, has a profound influence on the life of a young boy.

As commander on land & sea, Alcibiades was never defeated. Kinsman of Pericles, prot?g? of Socrates, the warrior was renowned as the most brilliant & charismatic personality of his day, as--fearlessly ambitious, politically ruthless--he forever altered Athens' destiny. During the twenty-seven-year Peloponnesian War, he swept from victory to victory, seemingly invincible. And then, in a shattering twist of fortune, he tumbled from glory. Recounted by Alcibiades' trusted bodyguard & hired assassin in a mesmerizing death-row confession, Tides of War is historical fiction at its finest--a rich & moving flesh-and-blood retelling of one of history's pivotal conflicts, written by an incomparable master of historical fiction.