The Profession is action packed, gritty and lots of mind boggling double crosses. This book is filled with lots of twist and turns and power games galore. Pressfield is extremely descriptive and technical with the mechanics of war and equipment which is great for the war techno enthusiasts out there/5(). Infused by a staggering breadth of research in military tactics and steeped in the timeless themes of the honor and valor of men at war that distinguish all of Pressfield's fiction, The Profession is that rare novel that informs and challenges the reader almost as much . · The 20 Professional Qualities [According to Steven Pressfield] One of the most important figures in the realms of today’s self-improvement market is Steven Pressfield. Steven Pressfield is a best-selling author whose ideas are constantly “recycled” without giving proper “attribution”.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD is the author of the novels The Legend of Bagger Vance, Gates of Fire, Tides of War, Last of the Amazons, The Virtues of War, The Afghan Campaign, and Killing Rommel, and the nonfiction book The War of Art. The Profession. by Steven Pressfield. Crown • J. Price: $ hardcover • pages • ISBN the profession by Steven Pressfield ‧ RELEASE DATE: J This military thriller, which begins in , concerns "Gent" Gentilhomme, a mercenary whose honor and bravery are severely tested. Men stood and lay upon these. The dying and the dead sprawled across the lower ground, the depressions and the sunken traces. Carrion birds were coming down with the night—crows and ravens from the hills, gulls from the sea. I found my brother's body, broken beneath the wheels of a battle wagon.
Infused by a staggering breadth of research in military tactics and steeped in the timeless themes of the honor and valor of men at war that distinguish all of Pressfield's fiction, The Profession is that rare novel that informs and challenges the reader almost as much as it entertains. Membership Advantages. Reviews. THE PROFESSION is really a story within a story. On a macro level, author Steven Pressfield foresees that mercenary armies will become the world's premier fighting forces in the not-too-distant future. “Steven Pressfield, in The Profession, has written a novel of the near future that is as good and in some cases better than anything Tom Clancy ever wrote in his day.”—Mark Whittington, Yahoo! "Pressfield’s military thriller stands out from the crowd by speculating on what the next generation of warfare will be like and then dropping the reader right into the action.
0コメント