A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War

As one of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hansen experienced a painstaking study of the war from the classical to the 21st century and a breakthrough story. Right now, he aligns the ancient confrontation with our most pressing contemporary problem, creating his most fascinating work, an unparalleled war.

Between the generation, bloody confrontation between Athens and Greek city states of Sparta brought the collapse of Athens and the end of the golden era. Thucydides wrote the standard history of the Peloponnese war, a history that provides readers a vivid and authoritative story. But Mr. Hansen said that the political background at the time, the strategic thinking of combatants, the pain of the battle of various theaters, and how they correspond to the current important insights, in full chronological order To the reader.

Hansen takes up the battle between Athens and Sparta, both on land and at sea, in cities and villages, explaining in detail the target assassination, torture and terrorism from their daily lives and sieges. The use of tactics He also evaluated the important role played by fighter planes like artists such as pellicle and lysander including Aristophanes and artists, and thinkers like Sophocle and Plato.

An intense analysis of Hansen's events and personality causes many thought-provoking questions: Athens and Sparta are like the United States and Russia, and are the two superpowers fighting death? Was the Peloponnesus War answered in an endless and frustrating conflict in Vietnam, Northern Ireland, the Middle East? Or it is like a "red nation - a blue country" that split between the American own civil war, a cruel crack, a glorious social structure, and even this century liberals and conservatives. Cultural war to rule military policy? Hansen boldly turned the facts into reality and revealed an amazing way to convey the past's present.

Great research, dynamic writing, no war are like other histories of this important war

The Peloponnese War (431 - 404 BC) was the ancient Greek war of the Peloponnese War led by Athens and Sparta. Thucydides says the war has begun. Because the Spartans were afraid of further growth of the forces of Athens because they placed most of Heras under the control of Athens. The two main characters from the other side, Lysander and Alcibiades, had the most influential influence at the end of the war. Lysander was appointed Spartan navarch of the Aegean Sea

The Peloponnesos war (431-404 BC) took place between the Lenin led led by Athens and the Peloponnesos alliance governed by Sparta. Whatever the cause of the war in the near future, it is essentially the best confrontation between Athens and Sparta in Greece. War (or war, because it is usually divided into three periods) is largely stalemate, sometimes there is activity. In terms of tactics, the Peloponnesos war represents a stagnant situation, but during the war there are various innovative strategic elements in the Greek war.

In the 27 years, the Peloponnesos war between Athens and Sparta of ancient Greece changed forever the landscape of the ancient world. Thought to be one of the first major wars in the world, Athens and Sparta carried out a bloody and horrible war for freedom. After the first series of battle in the midst of grief and loss, Athens leader Pellicle faced his fellowman and announced his famous funeral speech to commemorate the lost Athenian life Did. Among his fallen fellows, the great pellicle said: "Because the heroes use the whole earth as their tombs, and in the land far from themselves, the pillars with the inscription declare it Each breast has it.The record of the tablet.Please protect it except the heart.They are your model and judge that happiness is the result of freedom, courage and freedom, and war We will never reduce the danger. "