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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
From Simon & Schuster, Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy is Donald Kagan's, 20th century history of Athenian democracy, exploration of one of history's greatest subjects. An incisive portrait of Pericles is set against the shifting pol
A brilliant and vitally important history of why states go to war, by the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Peloponnesian War . War has been a fact of life for centuries. By lucidly revealing the common threads that connect the ancient confrontations
"Kagan's book is a contribution of considerable distinction, scrupulously fair, carefully argued, and lucidly written. And, what is more, it is persuasive.... Kagan sets out the story in detail and with acumen. The case has been adumbrated before
" 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
"This is a solid piece of scholarship, a readable, consistent, and understandable account of a difficult period in Greek history, and rife with astute and provocative observations on Thucydides." The Historian Why did the Peace of Nicias fail t
"The fourth volume in Kagan's history of ancient Athens, which has been called one of the major achievements of modern historical scholarship, begins with the ill-fated Sicilian expedition of 413 B.C. and ends with the surrender of Athens to Spar