Book Review: A War Like No Other
18 November, 2007With the name A War Like No Other, one is immediately drawn to the battles of the Twentieth Century – the stalemate of the First World War, the unparalleled devastation of World War Two, or the terrible conflagration that was the Vietnam War. Yet the title of this book speaks not of these wars, but of another that raged some 2,000 years previous.
A War Like No Other is, simply put, a thematically based history of the Peloponnesian War fought between the Greek city states of Sparta and Athens. For nigh on thirty years, these two military giants of their time fought an on-again, off-again war of invasion, rampage, devastation and destruction over Greece and Sicily. The outcome? Ultimately, Sparta won the war, but in doing so sealed its own doom. Continue Reading >>
