[PDF.16gd] Pylos and Sphacteria 425 BC: Sparta's island of disaster (Campaign)

Pylos and Sphacteria 425 BC: Sparta's island of disaster (Campaign)

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 | #1120896 in Books |  2013-12-24 |  2013-12-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.87 x7.62 x7.25l,.65 | File type: PDF | 96 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Nice slender volume on a major defeat of Sparta by Athens|By Steven Peterson|This slender volume, an addition to the Osprey Campaigns series, does an excellent job of describing a major battle in the later years of the war lasting from 431 to 421 B. C. (see the Chronology on pages 21 and 22 to place this battle into the larger historical context of the wars between Sparta (and|About the Author|William Shepherd studied classics at Clare College, Cambridge, in the 1960s and then embarked on a career in publishing, which finally brought him to Osprey, retiring from the position of chief executive in 2007. He is author of The Persian War

In the seventh year of the Second Peloponnesian or 'Archidamian' War the Athenians occupied the promontory of Pylos on the west coast of the Peloponnese as a counterstroke to Sparta's repeated invasions of Attica. Over two days of fighting the small garrison beat off the Spartan army and fleet's determined efforts to dislodge it, and then the returning Athenian fleet won a crushing victory in the nearby waters of what is now known as Navarino Bay. As a consequence, a con...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Pylos and Sphacteria 425 BC: Sparta's island of disaster (Campaign)   |  William Shepherd. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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