The Archidamian War (A New History of the Peloponnesian War)

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"The Archidamian War remains sober judicious and comprehensive. There is nothing else like it available in Englishcertainly nothing that takes all the modern scholarship into account.... But perhaps the most valuable achievement of the book is its carefully reasoned demolition of Thucydidess viewwarmly embraced by too many scholarsthat Pericless war strategy was justifiable." Peter Green Times Literary Supplement This book the second volume in Donald Kagans tetralogy about the Peloponnesian War is a provocative and tightly argued history of the first ten years of the war. Taking a chronological approach that allows him to present at each stage the choices that were open to both sides in the conflict Kagan focuses on political economic diplomatic and military developments. He evaluates the strategies used by both sides and reconsiders the roles played by several key individuals.