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Tides of War

Tides of War

Pressfield, Steven

Paperback

General FictionHistorical Fiction

ISBN10: 0553381393
ISBN13: 9780553381399
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: Aug 28 2001
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.39
Height: 1.16 Width: 6.07 Depth: 9.24
Language: English
The Peloponnesian War, one of history's most pivotal conflicts, comes to vibrant life in this unabashedly brilliant, epic, intelligent, and moving (Kirkus Reviews) novel from the bestselling author of Gates of Fire.

Pressfield's battlefield scenes rank with the most convincing ever written.--USA Today

Brilliant at war, a master of politics, and a charismatic lover, Alcibiades was Athens' favorite son and the city's greatest general.

A prodigal follower of Socrates, he embodied both the best and the worst of the Golden Age of Greece. A commander on both land and sea, he led his armies to victory after victory.

But like the heroes in a great Greek tragedy, he was a victim of his own pride, arrogance, excess, and ambition. Accused of crimes against the state, he was banished from his beloved Athens, only to take up arms in the service of his former enemies.

For nearly three decades, Greece burned with war and Alcibiades helped bring victories to both sides--and ended up trusted by neither.

Narrated from death row by Alcibiades' bodyguard and assassin, a man whose own love and loathing for his former commander mirrors the mixed emotions felt by all Athens, Tides of War is an epic saga of an extraordinary century, a war that changed history, and a complex leader who seduced a nation.

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