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Band of sisters: the Amazon light cavalry.(Book Review)
Steven Pressfield. Last of the Amazons. New York: Doubleday, 2002. 396 pp. Map, author's notes. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-385-50098-X.
I've never been an Amazon but Steven Pressfield sure made me feel like one. In Last of the Amazons he schooled me in their ways. He issued me my double-bladed battle-axe. I was handed my bow, my lance, and the reins to my warhorse. Down I rode from the Black Sea steppe to wreak vengeance on the men of Athens. I also felt like a man of Athens. I stood my ground in battle-line. I grasped my shield firmly and held my spear to the front. I waited for the storm of arrows as the female cavalry charged toward me. They screeched their battle ...
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