Written 400 years before the birth of Christ this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of... more
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Written 400 years before the birth of Christ this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war. He applied thereafter a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this factual record of a disastrous conflict.
Advantages: Interesting period in world history, well written and concise Disadvantages: -
...When I first began to study political science, I encountered a man who had a passion for Thucydides, the great Athenian historian, one of the earliest commentators on politics in the world, and one of the earliest international correspondents. This man, Robert Hattery, from whom I learned more about political science than anyone else, impressed upon me several important truths about politics, but one of the most lasting is that much of that which we see in the world today has antecedents in the past in amazing parallel - it is possible to take the writings of Thucydides and simply change the names of the people and places and get fairly accurate accounts of many of the major wars and diplomatic situations throughout the subsequent history, even into our own time.
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Advantages: Trademark unique narration, "Accurate Fiction" Disadvantages: A little erratic pacing, Not the author's best
...After nullifying the latest Persian threat and enjoying a few golden decades of supremacy, Greece did what Greece does: broke out in a ruthless civil war. Athens battled Sparta for the rule of Ancient Greece and the 27-year struggle's physical and spiritual toll was irreparable.
As the momentum of the conflict continually veered from one side to the other, one man's life reflected these, ever-changing, tides of war. Relentless on the battlefield and cunning in politics, Alcibiades' combination of qualities made him that era's most instrumental individual. Through the eyes of two almost ordinary men, Steven Pressfield shows us how close genius is to insanity and true heroism to despiteful treason, as we see Alcibiades coldly changing sides throughout the PeloponnesianWar.
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Advantages: Interesting, engaging, generally good analysis Disadvantages: A little more detail in some places would be welcome
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In the course of the twentieth century, no war looms as profoundly transformative or as destructive as World War II. Its global scope and human toll reveal the true face of modern, industrialized warfare.
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Thus begins the volume 'A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War' by Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett. Murray, a fellow at the Institute for Defense Analysis, and Millett, professor of Military History at Ohio State University, has collaborated to produce a volume that looks at the World War II in almost exclusively military terms, with detailed (if not always precisely accurate) analysis of battlefield plans and progresses, logistical situations and problems, and (to a lesser extent...
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