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The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War; The Archidamian War; The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition; The Fall of the Ath

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Imagine that the only contemporary record of most events of World War II had been written by a well-known general on the losing side, seriously at odds with his own people–a Rommel, say, though of philosophical disposition, moral clarity, evident compass



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Edward N. Luttwak is senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.