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A War Like No Other
- How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
- Gesprochen von: Bob Souer
- Spieldauer: 13 Std. und 58 Min.
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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.
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Gesamt5 out of 5 stars
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Geschichte5 out of 5 stars
- Thorsten Kirchheim
- 20.06.2023
Great Outlook on the peloponnesian wars
When it comes to history of the peloponnesian wars Victor Davis Hanson Book "A war like no other" is frequently mentioned as a basic and necessary lecture. It offers an extended description of the peloponnesian wars including their various stages. Additionally, the author characterizes their major political players, as well as their personalities. And last but not least - Hanson also formidably takes the peloponnesian wars out of the narrow focus as a series of battles between Athens and Sparta and puts it in their greater context. Thus he brings also the minor city states as belligerents into the point of view of this book.
Personally, I also enjoyed his extended outlook on greek naval warfare, including it's tactical and technological backgrounds. Somehow I would have wave wished the same approach to greek infantry warfare.
The narrators also outlines the contents of this book in detail. What I - as non-native English speaker - found slightly difficult to chew, was the speed of his narration, as well as his rhetorical focus on contents. I missed a more vivid explanation here, but maybe I am just to much a fan of Elizabeth Vangiver's vivid eloquence here. But on the other hand - you will get plenty of well-researched contents about the peloponnesian wars in this Audio Book, the clearly extends over the classical school history stuff.
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