description: 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 nonconventional 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 philosophers including Sophocles and Plato.
language: English
title: A War Like No Other
titlecomplete: A War Like No Other
characters: Thucydides, George S. Patton, Epaminondas, William Tecumseh Sherman
genres: Classics, Historical, History, Ancient History, War, Ancient, Greece, Military History, Nonfiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 2617
publisher: Methuen Publishing