In The Peloponnesian War Donald Kagan, a very distinguished classicist and the author of the monumental four volume History of the Peloponnesian War (1971-1988), who has of late become a prominent ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Victor Davis Hanson’s latest book, A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War has recently been released by Random House. This week ...

Thucydides’ account of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 B.C.) is the ultimate tale of a powerful geopolitical conflict. Athens, the dominant sea power, is challenged by Sparta, the upstart land power.

Professor Kagan talked about his book, [The Peloponnesian War], published by Viking. In this lecture, he explored the modern lessons that could be drawn from this conflict between the Greek city ...

Yet if there is a mournful quality to Hanson’s meditation, the book is no lament: like Stan Getz playing Burt Bacharach, Hanson makes art out of loss. How sad that war has lost its mythic appeal, now, ...

Yeah, Iraq—that war haunts this book, but the writing is so sloppy you can never be sure exactly what the link between the Peloponnesian War and our self-inflicted Iraq disaster is supposed to be.

In his book, Allison sketched out a scenario — “unlikely but not impossible” — for how a trade conflict between the United States and China could end in a nuclear war.