Go Tell The Spartans

Author : Jerry Pournelle,S. M. Stirling
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1991-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618240958

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Go Tell the Spartans by Jerry Pournelle,S. M. Stirling Pdf

Stranger, go and tell the Spartans That we lie here, obedient to their commands. Since the late 20th century, the Soviet-American CoDominium had kept the peace, both on Earth and among the stars. But now the CoDominium is dying, and its death-throes will be terrible; already the nations arm for their final battle. With Earth doomed, mankind's sole hope for a future worth having rests on a planet called Sparta, a planet where American idealists have raised once more the banner of a liberty that has been forgotten amid the corruptions and tyrannies of Earth. The Spartans know that they must be strong to survive; that is why they hired John Christian Falkenberg and his Legion to train them. What the Spartans do not know is that Falkenberg's enemies have become their own¾that Grand Senator Bronson's techno-ninja will follow the Legion to Sparta, and there wreak a terrible vengeance aimed at ending the Spartan experiment before it has fairly begun . . . At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Jerry Pournelle,S. M. Stirling
Publisher : Baen Books
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Falkenberg, John Christian (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 9780671720612

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Go Tell the Spartans by Jerry Pournelle,S. M. Stirling Pdf

The CoDominion is dying on Sparta. John Christian Falkenberg and his legion have come to train the Spartians. Their enemy is the Grand Senator Bronson's techno-ninja.

Author : Daniel Ford
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1478178183

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Incident at Muc Wa by Daniel Ford Pdf

"In April 1964, Daniel Ford opened his mail to find a check for $1,250-- an advance against royalties on Now Comes Theodora, his first novel, which Doubleday published the following year. Meanwhile the money bought a ticket to Saigon, where he spent three months with American advisors, helicopter crews, Seals, and Special Forces teams on their rounds of South Vietnam. There were 25,000 American military personnel and only fifty reporters in the country that summer. Almost all were volunteers, very few bothered with body armor, and nobody wore a steel helmet. The experience inspired Incident at Muc Wa and the Burt Lancaster film Go Tell the Spartans. 'Sad, bawdy, and compelling, ' wrote the reviewer from the Detroit Free Press."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Steven Pressfield
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553904055

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Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Steven Pressfield brings the battle of Thermopylae to brilliant life.”—Pat Conroy At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared and admired Spartan soldiers stood three hundred strong. Theirs was a suicide mission, to hold the pass against the invading millions of the mighty Persian army. Day after bloody day they withstood the terrible onslaught, buying time for the Greeks to rally their forces. Born into a cult of spiritual courage, physical endurance, and unmatched battle skill, the Spartans would be remembered for the greatest military stand in history—one that would not end until the rocks were awash with blood, leaving only one gravely injured Spartan squire to tell the tale. . . .

Author : Daniel Ford
Publisher : Warbird Books
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Incident at Muc Wa by Daniel Ford Pdf

This is the novel that inspired the acclaimed Burt Lancaster movie, Go Tell the Spartans. The year is 1964--early days in South Vietnam--and the U.S. Army Raiders have garrisoned a town that the French abandoned ten years before. The Viet Cong attack, and the Americans reinforce. They're not about to repeat the mistakes of the French! 'Sad, bawdy, and compelling,' wrote the Detroit Free Press. Prophetic, too, of how the larger war would end.

Author : Daniel Ford
Publisher : Warbird Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Only War We've Got by Daniel Ford Pdf

Author : Jerry Pournelle,S. M. Stirling
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618241061

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Prince of Sparta by Jerry Pournelle,S. M. Stirling Pdf

THE HELOT WAR¾PART II Together the new Royal Spartan Army and its instructors, the 5th Battalion of Falkenberg's Mercenary Legion, have defeated the initial assault of Grand Senator Bronson's terrorist hordes and their techno-ninja allies. But Bronson's hatred of Sparta and the Legion was as strong as ever; thanks to his limitless wealth and high office, the Helots were able to reform, retreat¾and fight again. This time they are doing better. Besieged within, blockaded by the CoDominium without, Sparta grimly fights to preserve its precious experiment in liberty. But just as it seems that the Spartans and their allies might prevail, Bronson has supplied his minions with a battle plan that will bring something worse than a Helot victory: Codename Endlosung-Final Solution. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Andrew J. Bayliss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192594518

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The Spartans by Andrew J. Bayliss Pdf

The image of Sparta, and the Spartans, is one dyed indelibly into the public consciousness: musclebound soldiers with long hair and red cloaks, bearing shiny bronze shields emblazoned with the Greek letter lambda. 'This is Sparta!', bellows Leonidas on the silver screen, as he decides to lead his 300 warriors to their deaths at Thermopylae. But what was Sparta? The myths surrounding Sparta are as old as the city itself. Even in antiquity, Sparta was a unique society, considered an enigma. The Spartans who fought for freedom against the Persians called themselves 'equals' or peers, but their equality was reliant on the ruthless exploitation of the indigenous population known as helots. The Spartans' often bizarre rules and practices have the capacity to horrify as much they do to fascinate us today. Athenian writers were intrigued and appalled in equal measure by a society where weak or disabled babies were said to have been examined carefully by state officials before being dumped off the edge of a cliff. Even today their lurid stories have shaped our image of Sparta; a society in which cowards were forced to shave off half their beards, to dress differently from their peers, and who were ultimately shunned to the extent that suicide seemed preferable. Equally appalling to us today is the brutal krypteia, a Spartan rite of passage where teenagers were sent into the countryside armed with a knife and ordered to eliminate the biggest and most dangerous helots. But the truth behind these stories of the exotic other can be hard to discover, lost amongst the legend of Sparta which was even perpetuated by later Spartans, who ran a thriving tourist industry that exaggerated the famed brutality of their ancestors. As Andrew Bayliss explores in this book, there was also much to admire in ancient Sparta, such as the Spartans' state-run education system which catered even to girls, or the fact that Sparta was almost unparalleled in the pre-modern world in allowing women a clear voice, with no fewer than forty sayings by Spartan women preserved in our sources. This book reveals the best and the worst of the Spartans, separating myth from reality.

Author : Jeremy M. Devine
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 029271601X

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Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second by Jeremy M. Devine Pdf

This book summarizes and briefly analyzes over 400 films about the Vietnam War.

Author : Tom Strabo
Publisher : Magus Books
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Donald J. Trump: The American Pericles? by Tom Strabo Pdf

To understand true democracy, we need to go back to the people who invented it: the ancient Athenians. The greatest champion of democracy was Pericles, one of the most remarkable figures in history. What can we learn from Pericles and ancient Greek culture? Donald J. Trump is no Pericles. However, he is a political outsider, and not part of the Washington D.C. establishment. We need a change. Any change at all is now desirable. It's time for democracy to take a great leap forward, by revisiting its Athenian past!

Author : Lawrence H. Suid
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813158082

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Guts and Glory by Lawrence H. Suid Pdf

Guts and Glory: The Making of the American Military Image in Film is the definitive study of the symbiotic relationship between the film industry and the United States armed services. Since the first edition was published nearly two decades ago, the nation has experienced several wars, both on the battlefield and in movie theatres and living rooms at home. Now, author Lawrence Suid has extensively revised and expanded his classic history of the mutual exploitation of the film industry and the military, exploring how Hollywood has reflected and effected changes in America's image of its armed services. He offers in-depth looks at such classic films as Wings, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, The Longest Day, Patton, Top Gun, An Officer and a Gentleman, and Saving Private Ryan, as well as the controversial war movies The Green Berets, M*A*S*H, the Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and Born on the Fourth of July.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Second Persian Invasion of Greece by Anonim Pdf

Author : Victor Davis Hanson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781608193684

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The End of Sparta by Victor Davis Hanson Pdf

In this sweeping and deeply imagined historical novel, acclaimed classicist Victor Davis Hanson re-creates the battles of one of the greatest generals of ancient Greece, Epaminondas. At the Battle of Leuktra, his Thebans crushed the fearsome army of Sparta that had enslaved its neighbors for two centuries. We follow these epic historical events through the eyes of Mêlon, a farmer who has left his fields to serve with Epaminondas-swept up, against his better judgment, in the fever to spread democracy even as he yearns to return to his pastoral hillside. With a scholar's depth of knowledge and a novelist's vivid imagination, Hanson re-creates the ancient world down to its intimate details-from the weight of a spear in a soldier's hand to the peculiar camaraderie of a slave and master who go into battle side by side. The End of Sparta is a stirring drama and a rich, absorbing reading experience. Praise for Victor Davis Hanson: "I have never read another book that explains so well the truth that 'war lies in the dark hearts of us all' but that history offers hope."-William Shawcross on The Father of Us All "Few writers cover both current events and history-and none with the brilliance and erudition of Victor Davis Hanson."-Max Boot on The Father of Us All "Enthralling."-Christopher Hitchens on The Western Way of War

Author : Steven Pressfield
Publisher : Black Irish Entertainment LLC
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781936891016

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The Warrior Ethos by Steven Pressfield Pdf

WARS CHANGE, WARRIORS DON'T We are all warriors. Each of us struggles every day to define and defend our sense of purpose and integrity, to justify our existence on the planet and to understand, if only within our own hearts, who we are and what we believe in. Do we fight by a code? If so, what is it? What is the Warrior Ethos? Where did it come from? What form does it take today? How do we (and how can we) use it and be true to it in our internal and external lives? The Warrior Ethos is intended not only for men and women in uniform, but artists, entrepreneurs and other warriors in other walks of life. The book examines the evolution of the warrior code of honor and "mental toughness." It goes back to the ancient Spartans and Athenians, to Caesar's Romans, Alexander's Macedonians and the Persians of Cyrus the Great (not excluding the Garden of Eden and the primitive hunting band). Sources include Herodotus, Thucydides, Plutarch, Xenophon, Vegetius, Arrian and Curtius--and on down to Gen. George Patton, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, and Israeli Minister of Defense, Moshe Dayan.

Author : Joe De Sena,Jeff O'Connell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780544286177

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Spartan Up! by Joe De Sena,Jeff O'Connell Pdf

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.