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A Tale of Two City-States
I remember years ago reading (or was I just thinking?) that the age of Thucydides was over. His Peloponnesian War, the history of the devastating strife between Athens and Sparta in the fifth century B.C., was a text for the times during the confrontation between the United States and the USSR. No less a figure than Secretary of State George C. Marshall, at no other time than in 1947, at the start of the Cold War, said that to understand the international issues of the day it was necessary to s…
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