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    <body><![CDATA[The copy I have was translated by Rex Warner.<br/><br/>This is a long, dense and complex book. There is much to recommend about this history, but it is not light reading or for the easily distracted. <br/><br/>Wikipedia has a <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War“">decent summary</a>, I suggest you read that before reading the book becaus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8147369">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm a huge history nerd, so of course I loved this. It chronicles, obviously, the history of the Peloponnesian War, the war between Greece’s two most powerful city-states, Athens and Sparta, as it unfolded during the fifth century B.C.<br/><br/>I read this for an ancient Greek history class, the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61718351">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is among my top five favorite books. Thucydides is a master not only of history, but learning, writing, and speaking. No one was more suited to tell the tales of the dawn of Freedom, Independence and their struggle with demagogy and servitude during the Peloponnesian War. If all history books w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39634266">more...</a>]]></body>
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