The Peloponnesian War: Athens and Sparta in Savage Conflict 431–404 Bc

ISBN-13: 9780007115068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 560 str.

Donald Kagan

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'It is a lively narrative that moves with immense speed towards its grim conclusion...Recent events have enhanced Kagan's reputation among American conservatives as a sage.' Daily Telegraph

'It is a daunting task to cover the same ground as a great classical historian, but Donald Kagan achieves it splendidly with "The Peloponnesian War".' Sunday Times, Books of the Year

'Kagan's narrative of one of the critical episodes in the history of the ancient world is as good an account of the subject as one could ask for.' Spectator

O autorze

Donald Kagan is Sterling Professor of History and Classics at Yale University. and is an internationally recognised authority on ancient Greek history and culture, as well as a scholar of diplomatic history. He is the author of a four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War that is considered the landmark academic work in the field as well as the highly acclaimed Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy and On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The Public Interest and the New York Times Book Review.