Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield

The supply of Fire is a historical fiction war thriller pin down in the times of quaint Greece. The story is told through the serf Xeones who is the protagonist in this story. It is to a fault told through Xerxes historian who records Xeones chronicle and holds on the role of a third person vote counter occasionally throughout the story. Xeones has been captured vi commensurate by Xerxes army and is universe held captive solely to see to it the story of those he fought on board with at the battle of battle of Thermopylae and the geezerhood/moments leading up to their heroic last foot to the death. Xeones begins with the story of his childhood.\nSon of Skamandridas of Astakos, a city in Akarnania, Xeones (who was fitting a regular evoke boy) childhood was ruined by assailers of Argives. who were supposed to be Astakos assort but turned on them by raiding, burning, and pillaging Xeones city. Xeones family was killed and he regretted non being able to die along berth of them in their defense scorn his young age. Xeones had two friends very(prenominal) dear to him during his trials after the raid to survive off the wilderness and seek a mod life in a city. Their names were Bruxieus and Diomache. Diomache was cousin to Xeones as well as his compulsion though the feeling was not mutual for her. For several winters they lived in the wilds where they learned to hunt and take care of themselves. Eventually Bruxieus dies and tells them to decimal point for athens as it is the moreover way to truly overcompensate their lives as real community and not wild savages. not to long after Bruxieus death, Diomache and Xeones endure on separate paths. Diomache to capital of Greece and Xeones to Sparta (out of his own passion and bequeath to become a man). They do not see severally other for several years and when they do it is brief.\nXeones Becomes a helot of Sparta and assists as a gallant to Dienekes who is a highly adorn spartan platoon command er. Xeones becomes friends/rivals with Polynikes (who is among the highest decorated spartans a...