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Steven Pressfield on Writing Historical Fiction

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Gates of Fire Isn't a Way Love.

Sera: What causes 300 men to stand there knowing that it'll be to their death? It's love. And i think one thing that's connected with a lot of men and women who serve is, in gates of fire, that that phalinx warfare,. The absolute dependence that you have on the shield beside you and the shield on the other side of you - we don't fight like that in that close proximity any more but there is still that sense of absolute dependence. That's an indelible bond that i think men and women that have served and come out, they miss it for the rest of their lives. They can't find it again. I mean, that's

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