Thucydides' rigorous, eyewitness account of the long war between Athens and Sparta, stripped of myth and focused on human causes. It pioneered analytical, evidence-based history.
Sources for Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War in War & Military Thought
Held in the War & Military Thought chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Tjaneni — An Account of the Battle of Megiddo (−1457)
- Sun Tzu — The Art of War (−500)
- Xenophon — Anabasis (The March of the Ten Thousand) (−370)
- Julius Caesar — The Gallic Wars (−50)
- Arrian — The Anabasis of Alexander (150)
- Carl von Clausewitz — On War (1832)
- Antoine-Henri Jomini — The Art of War (1838)