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"Gates of Fire" by Stephen Pressfield. It's historical fiction, a story of the battle of Thermopylae told to Xerxes by a Spartan Squire captured after the battle. It details the run up to the battle- the training the youth of the city endured, the culture of the times, the various social levels- but does include plenty of the battle itself. Worth a read. Not much godly interference except for a vision the story's teller had when he was young.

"The Wraeththu Trilogy", by Storm Constantine. This one was written in the eighties by a woman who was very, very clearly a goth or at least a New Romantic. Valor of Christian Death wrote a few of the poems in the trilogy, and the ridiculous amounts of sex and inter-character bickering are balanced by pleasingly lush description and some genuine consideration of a post-human race.

"Hell's Angels" by Hunter S Thompson. A rambling account of HST's interactions with the Angels in the sixties, including various comparisons of news sources to reality, some highly contradictory comments on the original Angels' codes of behaviour, and the HST's distinctively hyperbolic style.