Fiction
- The Legend of Bagger Vance (see The Legend of Bagger Vance (film) for the movie), about a young man trying to come to terms with his spiritual demons through the medium of golf (1995)
- Gates of Fire, about the Battle of Thermopylae (1998)
- Tides of War, A Novel of Alcibiades and the Peloponnesian War (2000)
- Last of the Amazons, in which Theseus, the legendary King of Athens, sets sail to the north coast of the Black Sea inhabited by a race of female warriors (2002)
- The Virtues of War, about Alexander the Great (2004)
- The Afghan Campaign, about Alexander the Great's conquests in Afghanistan (2006)
- Killing Rommel (2008), a fictionalized account of a patrol of the British Long Range Desert Group during the North African Campaign of World War II.
- The Profession (2011), Pressfield's first book set in the future, where military force is for hire everywhere. Oil companies, multinational corporations and banks employ powerful, cutting-edge mercenary armies to control global chaos and protect their riches.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“Given that external reality is a fiction, the writers role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“... fiction never exceeds the reach of the writers courage.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
“Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.”
—Coleman Dowell (19251985)
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