by Thucydides
Recommended by 5 notable people, including Ryan Holiday and Matt Mullenweg
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Recommended by 8 sources and appears in War, Books Recommended by Ryan Holiday, and Most Recommended Books.
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long lifeanddeath struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war. He applied...
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Recommended by 8 sources and appears in War, Books Recommended by Ryan Holiday, and Most Recommended Books.
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