Donald Kagan has written a popular, clearly written volume on the Peloponnesian War. A New Yorker critic takes issue with its hawkish sentiments:

His book represents the Ollie North take on the Peloponnesian War: “If we’d only gone in there with more triremes,” he seems to be saying, “we would have won that sucker.”

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