“Beyond the best battle scenes I’ve ever read—brutal, bloody, and thoroughly gripping—Pressfield has an amazing grasp of the savage mind, and the precarious nature of civilization.”—Diana Gabaldon
“Pressfield’s battlefield scenes rank with the most convincing ever written.”—USA Today
“Inventive . . . epic . . . a rousing adventure.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
“Makes the distant past seem real and immediate. This is historical fiction elevated to the status of myth.”—Daniel Silva, author of The English Assassin
“To combine erudition, fluency, and storytelling is an impossible hat trick. . . . Pressfield gives us Thermopylae, Alcibiades, and now, the Amazons as compellingly as Patrick O’Brian gave us the Royal Navy. The high merit of his scholarship is eclipsed, indeed, obliterated, by the merit of his acts of imagination.”—David Mamet
“Fascinating . . . the best book of the summer.”—The Houston Chronicle
“A master storyteller . . . [a] gripping tale of epic battle.”—Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
“A novel of adventure, romance . . . [and] vivid imagination. . . . Pressfield’s novels bridge past and present.”—Albuquerque Journal
“Pressfield’s splendid tale of valor, honor, and comradeship memorializes those women whose lives and deeds have faded into the mists of legend.”—Library Journal
“Solid entertainment . . . Like James Clavell before him, Pressfield can take small, intimate daily details . . . and blend them into his story.”—Fort Worth Morning Star Telegram
“Pressfield’s javelin is his pen and he wields it well.”—Publishers Weekly
“A joy to read . . . Pressfield writes with a quality and style akin to classical legend . . . A powerful elegy to the world that wasn’t to be, as well as a profound dialogue between civilization and ‘savagery.’”—SFX Magazine
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