Sparta Against Athens: The Thirty-Year War That Broke Greece

For nearly three decades, Athens and Sparta bled Greece dry in a war that decided nothing-except that no city-state would ever again be strong enough to stand alone. This is the story of that ruinous conflict, from the first clash at Sybota to the final surrender at Aegospotami.What sets this account apart: five original tactical diagrams and maps that walk you phase by phase through the key battles-Pylos, Delium, Amphipolis, and more-so you see exactly how hoplites and triremes won or lost. Order-of-battle tables clarify the forces on each side, while every anecdote is sourced by name to Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, or Diodorus Siculus.For readers of narrative military history who want the drama of the Peloponnesian War without sacrificing the tactical and evidential ground truth.