A War Like No Other - Victor Davis Hanson - 2019
How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
By: Victor Davis Hanson
Narrated by: Bob Souer
Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 10-22-19
Language: English
Genre: History, Ancient
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
Publisher's Summary
Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the 21st century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing work to date, A War Like No Other.
Hanson compellingly portrays the ways Athens and Sparta fought on land and sea, in city and countryside, and details their employment of the full scope of conventional and non-conventional tactics, from sieges to targeted assassinations, torture, and terrorism. He also assesses the crucial roles played by warriors such as Pericles and Lysander, artists, among them Aristophanes, and thinkers including Sophocles and Plato.
Hanson's perceptive analysis of events and personalities raises many thought-provoking questions: Were Athens and Sparta like America and Russia, two superpowers battling to the death? Is the Peloponnesian War echoed in the endless, frustrating conflicts of Vietnam, Northern Ireland, and the current Middle East? Or was it more like America's own Civil War, a brutal rift that rent the fabric of a glorious society, or even this century's schism between liberals and conservatives? Hanson daringly brings the facts to life and unearths the often surprising ways in which the past informs the present.
©2005 Victor Davis Hanson (P)2019 Tantor
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