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I’ve got like a dozen runners-up for third place, but I guess I have to choose! And I have to choose the great Steven Pressfield.

Regular readers will have heard me rave about The War of Art, which is the holy text for writers, creatives, and anyone trying to do anything hard and creative in the world. His novels, particularly The Profession and Killing Rommel, are absolute masterclasses in (literary) military fiction. But this is his epic story, finally told in full, and will be of interest not just to Pressfield die-hards, as well as students of the artist’s journey,…

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