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Article: The Peloponnesian War.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- January 1, 2004
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The Peloponnesian War. By Donald Kagan. (New York: Viking, 2003. Pp. xxx, 511. $29.95.)
Donald Kagan, author of a well-respected scholarly history of the Peloponnesian War in four volumes, has now written a highly readable one-volume account of the war for a general audience. Kagan helps his nonspecialist readers by organizing the narrative into seven major parts, each divided into several chapters, the chapters in turn divided into relatively short subsections, each succinctly titled, an arrangement that breaks a long and complex history into a series of relatively short, well-focused units. Thirty maps, all well placed and well drawn (by Jeffrey L. Ward), ...