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The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
Category: History
For almost three decades at the end of the fifth century BC the ancient world was torn apart in a conflict that was, within its historical context, as dramatic, divisive, and destructive as the great world wars of the twentieth century. The Peloponnesian War pitted Greek against Greek: the Athenians, wi ...Show more
The Peloponnesian War : Athens and Sparta in savage conflict 431-404 BC by Donald Kagan
Category: History
The Stalingrad of the ancient world, this is an immensely readable, brilliant, brutal and vivid history of the greatest and bloodiest war of ancient Greece. The Peloponnesian War, fought 2,500 years ago between oligarchic Sparta and democratic Athens for control of Greece, is brought spectacularly to li ...Show more
Thucydides: The Reinvention of History by Donald Kagan
Category: History
A reconsideration of the first modern historian and his methods from a renowned scholar. The grandeur and power of Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War have enthralled readers, historians, and statesmen alike for two and a half millennia, and the work and its author have had an enduring influence on those ...Show more
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