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The Greek way of war.(A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War)(Book Review)
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, by Victor Davis Hanson (Random House, 400 pp., $29.95)
DEFINITIVE. Engrossing. A masterpiece. It is difficult to marshal all the requisite superlatives for Victor Davis Hanson's new book on the Peloponnesian war. Hanson takes up the story where Donald Kagan, whose four-volume history of that world-altering conflict also deserves a passel of praise, left off. Kagan provided a sweeping political and strategic overview of the war; Hanson, a classicist, farmer, and military historian, shifts the focus and brings the reader into the guts of battle: Fear, Fire, Disease, Terror, Armor--his ...
- The Peloponnesian War.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Historian Rosivach, Vincent J. January 1, 2004 700+ words
The Peloponnesian War. By Donald Kagan. (New York...respected scholarly history of the Peloponnesian War in four volumes, has now written...suited to his intended audience. The Peloponnesian War's focus is, of course, on war...
- Lessons of the Peloponnesian War: although the current "war on terror" and the...
- Magazine article from: The New American Wolverton, Joe, II January 9, 2006 700+ words
...necessity of preventive war. Does this describe America of 2005 and the "war on terror?" Yes, but...of 421 B.C. and the Peloponnesian War. The similarities between...cautionary. Those two wars, separated by a gulf of...
- A war without heroes.(A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans...
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Strauss, Barry November 1, 2005 700+ words
...that he would turn now to the Peloponnesian War. (1) Not that anyone would...measure of trepidation. The Peloponnesian War is the Everest of ancient military...creative talent for killing." The Peloponnesian War destroyed the Athenian Empire...
- War and Democracy: a Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian...
- Magazine article from: Korean Studies Boose, Donald W., Jr. June 1, 2002 700+ words
...account of the Peloponnesian War. Turner not...great writers on war, statecraft...Peloponnesian wars. David McCann...democracy and war in any age...Peloponnesian wars. Most, however, relate the Peloponnesian War to the larger...
- War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian...
- Magazine article from: Korean Studies Boose, Donald W., Jr. June 1, 2002 700+ words
...account of the Peloponnesian War. Turner not...great writers on war, statecraft...Peloponnesian wars. David McCann...democracy and war in any age...Peloponnesian wars. Most, however, relate the Peloponnesian War to the larger...
- Peloponnesian War
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature M. C. HOWATSON and IAN CHILVERS January 1, 1996 700+ words
Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), a war between Athens and Sparta—the two leading...the victor. The principal literary authority for the Peloponnesian War up to 411 is Thucydides; for 411 to the end, Xenophon...
- Works of Thucydides: Background Of The Peloponnesian War.
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Thucydides January 1, 1963 700+ words
...Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Background Of The Peloponnesian War. In 493 B.C. the Persian War, one of the most decisive in world history...Thucydides was a general in the early part of the Peloponnesian War. He failed to relieve the Athenian forces...
- The Peloponnesian War; Athens, Sparta and the struggle for Greece.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2006 700+ words
0312342152 The Peloponnesian War; Athens, Sparta, and the struggle...1927-2002) portrays the 431-404 BC war not as a single chronology, but as...completed this companion to his The Punic Wars two months before he died unexpectedly...
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