Ancient Warfare Magazine

SPECIAL OPERATIONS IN ANTIQUITY

THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR

By Donald Kagan

Viking Penguin, 2003

ISBN: 978-0142004371

Kagan’s magisterial four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War (1969–1 987) is here distilled into a single easily digested volume. The scholarship is sound and up to date and the analysis is all you could want. Kagan remains the go-to scholar on the Peloponnesian War.

A COMPANION TO THE PUNIC WARS

Edited by Dexter Hoyos

Wiley-Blackwell, 2015

ISBN: 978-1405176002

Hoyos brings together and leads a range of authors

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