Based on his four-volume History of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan is back with a single, comprehensive volume covering the events of the Peloponnesian War. This war was a period of brutality and destruction in the Greek world that was completely unprecedented. However, in a time that was made for the rise and fall of military and political heroes, Kagan only gives us men who did what they thought was right at the time. Readers will be able to sympathize with such reasoning, which will provoke even greater thought and understanding in contemporary readers.