The Peloponnesian War
by Donald Kagan | 
The Greeks
by H. D. F. Kitto | 
The World of Odysseus
by M. I. Finley | 
The Classical World
by Robin Lane Fox | 
Persian Fire
by Tom Holland | 
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea
by Thomas Cahill | 
The Rise Of The Greeks
by Michael Grant | 
Ancient Greece
by Sarah B. Pomeroy | 
Thermopylae
by Ernle Bradford | 
Travelling Heroes
by Robin Lane Fox | 
Hiroshima
by John Hersey | 
The Guns of August
by Barbara W. Tuchman | 
Schindler's Ark
by Thomas Keneally | 
Soldiers and Ghosts
by J. E. Lendon | 
The Rough Riders
by Theodore Roosevelt | 
The Armies of the Night
by Norman Mailer |
We Were Soldiers Once...and Young
by Harold G. Moore | 
Stalingrad
by Antony Beevor | 
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
by James D. Hornfischer | 
Neptune's Inferno
by James D. Hornfischer |
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the long life-and-death struggle between Athens and Sparta stands an excellent chance of fulfilling its author's ambitious claim. Thucydides himself (c.460-400 BC) was an Athenian and achieved the rank of general in the earlier stages of the war. He applied thereafter a passion for accuracy and a contempt for myth and romance in compiling this factual record of a disastrous conflict.