Song of Wrath

For ten years in the late fifth century BC, the dueling city-states of Athens and Sparta fought the first bloody chapter of the Peloponnesian War, the conflict that turned the Golden Age of Greece to iron. Somber, authoritarian Sparta, with its mighty infantry, was the elderly, respected master of G [...]
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For ten years in the late fifth century BC, the dueling city-states of Athens and Sparta fought the first bloody chapter of the Peloponnesian War, the conflict that turned the Golden Age of Greece to iron. Somber, authoritarian Sparta, with its mighty infantry, was the elderly, respected master of Greece. Democratic Athens-cheerful, mercantile, and arrogant - had acquired strength both new and naval. When Athens achieved great power, and sought to have its great-power status acknowledged, the newcomer's challenge to Sparta's primacy sparked the Ten Years War (431-421 BC), a fight for national honor carried out by acts of callous vengeance and surprising grace, by guile and mercy, by invasions, sea-battles, sieges, raids, and, finally, by tremendous and climatic battles on land. A gripping account of the epic clash of Athens and Sparta, "Song of Wrath" offers a muscular new way of understanding national strategy and foreign relations, one that is just as powerful when applied to today's world as when it is applied to the ancient.