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The book appears on the Commandant's required reading list for all Staff Sergeants and Gunnery Sergeants [2] in the United States Marine Corps, and frequently serves as a text for cadets in leadership classes at West Point. A television miniseries based on the book was aired on NBC in 1976, with actor Sam Elliott portraying Sam Damon.
The book received wide acclaim and is on the required reading list for U.S. Marines and is on the Commandant's Professional Reading List. [1] Praise came from luminaries ranging from U.S. Marine Corps General Jim Mattis to award winning historians Carlo D'Este and Hampton Sides, among others.
The book was named to the Reading List of the Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. [30] A Vanished World: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain (Free Press, 2005; Oxford University Press, 2006); [31] nominated for La Corónica award. Heroic Living: Discover Your Purpose and Change the World (2010) [32]
Henry Barrett Tillman (born 1948) is an American author who specializes in naval and aviation topics in addition to fiction and technical writing.. Tillman's most influential book to date is On Yankee Station (1987), written with John B. Nichols.
The Art of War is listed on the US Marine Corps Professional Reading Program (formerly known as the Commandant's Reading List). It is recommended reading for all United States Military Intelligence personnel. [25] The Art of War is also used as instructional material at the United States Military Academy (commonly known as West Point), in the ...
The book was considered by the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College to be an accurate roman à clef and has remained on its recommended reading list for World War II, along with other historical novels. It is also on the recommended reading list of the Commandant of the United States Marines Corps. [5]
Gates of Fire is a 1998 historical fiction novel by Steven Pressfield that recounts the Battle of Thermopylae through Xeones, a perioikos [1] (free but non-citizen inhabitant of Sparta) born in Astakos, [2] and one of only three Greek survivors of the battle.
The book was a New York Times best-seller. David Halberstam called it, "A stunning achievement—paper and words with the permanence of marble. I read it and thought of The Red Badge of Courage, the highest compliment I can think of."