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　　One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis

Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking

accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the

twenty-first 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.

Over the course of a generation, the Hellenic city-states of

Athens and Sparta fought a bloody conflict that resulted in the

collapse of Athens and the end of its golden age. Thucydides wrote

the standard history of the Peloponnesian War, which has given

readers throughout the ages a vivid and authoritative narrative.

But Hanson offers readers something new: a complete chronological

account that reflects the political background of the time, the

strategic thinking of the combatants, the misery of battle in

multifaceted theaters, and important insight into how these events

echo in the present.

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 nonconventional 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 “red

state—blue state” schism between liberals and conservatives, a

cultural war that manifestly controls military policies? Hanson

daringly brings the facts to life and unearths the often surprising

ways in which the past informs the present.

Brilliantly researched, dynamically written, A War Like No Other

is like no other history of this important war.

From the Hardcover edition

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　　Victor Davis Hanson has written or edited numerous books,

including The Western Way of War, The Wars of the Ancient Greeks,

The Soul of Battle, Carnage and Culture, and Ripples of Battle. He

is also the author of two bestselling collections of essays: An

Autumn of War and Between War and Peace. He is director emeritus of

the classics program at California State University, Fresno, and

currently a classicist and military historian at the Hoover

Institution, Stanford University. He has been a National Endowment

for the Humanities fellow, a fellow at the Center for Advanced

Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, an Onassis fellow in

Greece, Shifrin Professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, and

a recipient of the Eric Brendel Memorial Award for journalism. He

lives and works with his wife and three children on their

forty-acre tree and vine farm near Selma, California, where he was

born in 1953.

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　　“The age of Pericles was also a time of famine, pestilence and

atrocity: a ‘Thirty Year Slaughter.’ In order to understand the

lesson this offers for civilization, one must try to feel it as the

Greeks felt it, and reflect it as they did. In this dual task,

Victor Davis Hanson once again demonstrates that his qualifications

are unrivalled.”

　　–Christopher Hitchens, author of Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys

and Essays

　　“This book will immediately become the standard companion volume

in English to Thucydides’ Peloponnesian Wars. Its own battle

narratives are unexcelled; but its singular merit is its

comprehensive and detailed de*ion of how the actual fighting

was done, how generals led, and why each side–Sparta and

Athens–went to war. The author is a man of action and a practicing

farmer as well as the premier classical historian and military

commentator of our day.”

　　–Josiah Bunting III, author of Ulysses S. Grant

　　“The Peloponnesian War was grand and tragic but the sheer misery

of those who experienced it has often been overlooked–until now.

From death by trampling to cannibalism, from preteen-sized knights

on ponies to deformed and ghostly plague survivors, from elegant

galleys to bloodbaths in waterlogged death traps, the dark cones of

classical combat are all brought to light by Hanson. This is a

groundbreaking book by a great historian.”

　　–Barry Strauss, author of The Battle of Salamis: The Naval

Encounter That Saved Greece–and Western Civilization

　　From the Hardcover edition.

书籍介绍

One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first 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.

Over the course of a generation, the Hellenic city-states of Athens and Sparta fought a bloody conflict that resulted in the collapse of Athens and the end of its golden age. Thucydides wrote the standard history of the Peloponnesian War, which has given readers throughout the ages a vivid and authoritative narrative. But Hanson offers readers something new: a complete chronological account that reflects the political background of the time, the strategic thinking of the combatants, the misery of battle in multifaceted theaters, and important insight into how these events echo in the present.

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 nonconventional 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 “red state—blue state” schism between liberals and conservatives, a cultural war that manifestly controls military policies? Hanson daringly brings the facts to life and unearths the often surprising ways in which the past informs the present.

Brilliantly researched, dynamically written, A War Like No Other is like no other history of this important war.

From the Hardcover edition.