The War Room: Battle of Pylos and Sphacteria, 425BC
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A triple engagement between Athens and Sparta, featuring combined land-sea operations, an attempt to break a strategic impasse, crazy Athenian politics and an island that gets set on fire.
Bibliography:
History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides), specifically the Penguin Classic using the Rex Warner Translation
Pylos and Sphacteria 425BC, Osprey (William Shepherd)
Warfare in the Ancient World (Hackett et al)
Greece and Rome at War (Peter Connolly)
A War Like No Other (Victor Davis Hanson)
The Peloponnesian War, The Great Courses Audiobook (Kenneth Hart)
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