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War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states

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Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan

Born: May 1, 1932
Died: August 6, 2021 (aged 89)
Bio: Donald Kagan was an American historian and classicist at Yale University specializing in ancient Greece, notable for his four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War. He taught in the Department of History at Cornell University.
Known for:
  1. The Western Heritage (1979)
  2. On the Origins of War (1995)
  3. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War (1969)
  4. The Archidamian war (1974)

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