Donald Kagan: The Peloponnesian War (Penguin 2003) [IBR2026] (opens in new tab)

In this book I attempt a new history of the Peloponnesian War designed to meet the needs of readers in the twenty-first century. It is based on the scholarship employed in my four volumes on the war aimed chiefly at a scholarly audience, but my goal here is a readable narrative in a single volume […]