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Author : Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Release : 2007-07-31
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 609/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Spartan by : Valerio Massimo Manfredi
Download or read book Spartan written by Valerio Massimo Manfredi. This book was released on 2007-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of passion, courage and magic, Spartan is an enthralling novel of the ancient world.
Author : Joe De Sena
Release : 2014
Genre : Health & Fitness
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 170/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Spartan Up! by : Joe De Sena
Download or read book Spartan Up! written by Joe De Sena. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to Spartan Races (races meant to challenge, to push, to intimidate, to test) from one of the "founding few" and creators, Joe De Sena.
Author : Ann Scott Tyson
Release : 2014-03-25
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 006/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis American Spartan by : Ann Scott Tyson
Download or read book American Spartan written by Ann Scott Tyson. This book was released on 2014-03-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence of Arabia meets Sebastian Junger's War in this unique, incendiary, and dramatic true story of heroism and heartbreak in Afghanistan written by a Pulitzer Prize–nominated war correspondent. Army Special Forces Major Jim Gant changed the face of America’s war effort in Afghanistan. A decorated Green Beret who spent years in Afghanistan and Iraq training indigenous fighters, Gant argued for embedding autonomous units with tribes across Afghanistan to earn the Afghans’ trust and transform them into a reliable ally with whom we could defeat the Taliban and counter al-Qaeda networks. The military's top brass, including General David Petraeus, commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, approved, and Gant was tasked with implementing his controversial strategy. Veteran war correspondent Ann Scott Tyson first spoke with Gant when he was awarded the Silver Star in 2007. Tyson soon came to share Gant’s vision, so she accompanied him to Afghanistan, risking her life to embed with the tribes and chronicle their experience. And then they fell in love. Illustrated with dozens of photographs, American Spartan is their remarkable story—one of the most riveting, emotional narratives of wartime ever published.
Author : Michael Ford
Release : 2012-12-06
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 339/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Birth of a Warrior by : Michael Ford
Download or read book Birth of a Warrior written by Michael Ford. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lysander had to leave his roots as a Helot slave far behind him, when he discovered his true identity as the descendant of a Spartan warrior. The training is ruthless and now he faces his toughest challenge. Sent to the mountains with nothing but a goatskin flask, he and two other boys must prove their ability to survive before they can return. Facing starvation, wild animals and the elements, Lysander discovers that his real enemy is in fact one of the other boys, sent to sabotage his trial. From his vantage point in the mountains, Lysander can see another threat on the horizon - the Persians are invading. He must prove his worth as a Spartan and return to the village as soon as possible in order to warn of the attack. But who is Lysander fighting for - to save Spartan honour, or to protect the Helot slaves, whom he used to live among?
Author : Paul Cartledge
Release : 2003-07-17
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 245/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Spartan Reflections by : Paul Cartledge
Download or read book Spartan Reflections written by Paul Cartledge. This book was released on 2003-07-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a book that scholars will read with pleasure, and a book from which advanced undergraduates and graduates will gain a sense of what Sparta was like as a culture, and (just as important) the nature and state of play of contemporary Spartan studies. And it will be accessible for the well informed lay reader as well."—Josiah Ober, author of Political Dissent in Democratic Athens "Paul Cartledge's aim, in this powerful collection of essays, is to shed light in dark places, to demythicize... Cartledge is shrewd, realistic, and far from starry-eyed. Over a quarter-century's exhaustive research, now updated, has gone into these densely documented and tightly argued essays. These Spartans, in the last resort, are exploitative slave-drivers, obsessed with keeping their serfs down (by annually killing off any resisters, among other things)... Modern idealizers of cold baths, black broth, mindless discipline and long route marches should read this book and, hopefully, have second thoughts."—Peter Green, author of Alexander to Actium
