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Not afraid to challenge accepted views, he assesses the war as a military, rather than a political, endeavour, evaluating issues such as the advantages and limitations of sea power. Within a narrative framework, Lazenby concentrates on the fighting itself, and examines the way in which both strategy and tactics developed as the conflict spread. Lazenby avoids the tendency of allowing historiography to obscure analysis, and while paying due attention to detail, also looks at the fundamental questions of warfare raised by the conflict. This authoritative work is the first single-volume study of the entire war to be published in over seventy-five years. Since Thucydides described the war as ‘the greatest disturbance to befall the Greeks’, numerous studies have been made of individual episodes and topics. With the struggle between Athens and Sparta at its core, the twenty-seven-year conflict drew in states from all points of the compass: from Byzantion in the north, Crete in the south, Asia Minor in the east and Sicily in the west. The range and extent of the Peloponnesian War of the fifth century BC has led to it being described as a ‘world war’ in miniature.
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