{"product_id":"9780140440393","title":"The History of the Peloponnesian War","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Thucydides, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 28\/02\/1974,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 656 pages, maps, bibliog , index,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Penguin Classics,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Penguin Books Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Classical texts, Ancient Greece\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780140440393\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e'With icy remorselessness, it puts paid to any notion that the horrors of modern history might be an aberration - for it tells of universal war, of terrorism, revolution and genocide' Tom Holland\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003eThe long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta plunged the ancient Greek world into decades of war.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003eThucydides was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war, and in this detailed, first-hand contemporary account he writes as both a soldier and a historian.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productDescription\"\u003eHe applies a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling a factual record of a ruinous conflict that would eventually destroy the Athenian empire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Rex Warner with an introduction and notes by M. I. Finley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"otherFormats\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35022761951385,"sku":"9780140440393","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780140440393.jpg?v=1602536716","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780140440393","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}