Kyle Harrison
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A War Like No Other
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
- Author
- Victor Davis Hanson
- Published
- 2005
- Pages
- 397
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Hanson reorganises the Peloponnesian War by method rather than chronology — sieges, plague, cavalry, hoplite battle, triremes — to show what twenty-seven years of it was actually like to fight.
Where I heard about it
- @typesfast’s thread — a reply to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” in the thread, June 2025. The full list of replies lives on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Victor Davis Hanson — the author.
- War — the subject.