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Mercy College - Fall 2012 | ||
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Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield Paperback, 442 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-553-58053-1 / 0553580531 ISBN-13: 978-0-553-58053-2 / 9780553580532 Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. Thus reads an ancient stone at Thermopylae in northern Greece, the site of one of the world's greatest battles for freedom. Here, in 480 B.C., on a narrow mountain pass above the crystalline Aegean, 300 Sparta |