The Athenian Half-Century 478-431 BC - Thucydides 89-118 translation and commentary - A. French - paperback WFB Excellent condition

Excellent condition

It had plenty of machine-gun firepower and an effective high-explosive round for engaging anti-tank guns

and as they landed and met the enemy

among others

The Athenian Half-Century 478-431 BC - Thucydides 89-118 translation and commentary - A. French - paperback WFB Excellent conditionBorn into a family of Athens's old nobility claiming descent from the Homeric hero Ajax of Salamis, Thucydides pursued a political career under Pericles and served as a general in the Great Peloponnesian War of 431 404 b. c. His subsequent exile for failure to prevent a Spartan takeover of an Athenian colony in Thrace enabled him to observe the war from both sides. In his history of the war, he examines the policies and motives of the people involved