Brandon Duke- "Gates of Fire" 4/19

I read this book in the fall or maybe over the summer and it is sick! A friend told me I had to read it and he was right. It is about the battle of Thermopylae or most widely know as the 300 movie battle. So let me start by saying that, that movie was totally off. Of course it was not only 300 people killing like 50,000 other solders a piece. But yall already knew that.

Anyway this book tells the story from the perspective of an injured squire, who survives the battle. It is written beautifully. The squire gets captured and basically tells the story to his guards and the scribe for the king, who want to hear the story.

It is cool how the author knows the power of myth and story and writes it into the book. What ends up happening is that the story actually ends up saving the like of the scribe when he can connect with spartans who are about to kill him.

it is a sick book!