Publisher's Synopsis
The long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta plunged the traditional Greek world into decades of war. Thucydides was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general within the earlier stages of the war, and during this detailed, first-hand contemporary account he writes as both a soldier and a historian. He applies a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling a factual record of a ruinous conflict that might eventually destroy the Athenian empire.This version of the book is annotated.
