War and Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War: A Comparative Study of the Korean War and the Peloponnesian War

✍ Scribed by David R. McCann; Barry S. Strauss

Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 388
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A comparison of the cultural and political/institutional dimensions of war's impact on Greece during the Peloponnesian War, and the United States and the two Koreas, North and South, during the Korean War. It demonstrates the many underlying similarities between the two wars.

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