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The

Grand

Strategy

Classical

Sparta

The Persian Challenge

Paul A. Rahe

New Haven and London

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Republics Ancient and Modern:

Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution,

by Paul A. Rahe.

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James Joseph Rahe

Battles are the principal milestones in secular history. Modern opinion resents

this uninspiring truth, and historians often treat the decisions in the field as

incidents in the dramas of politics and diplomacy. But great battles, won or

lost, change the entire course of events, create new standards of values, new

moods, new atmospheres, in armies and in nations, to which all must conform.

Winston S. Churchill