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In this significant and seriously imagined historical novel, recommended classicist Victor Davis Hanson re creates the fights of 1 of the best generals of old Greece, Epaminondas. In the Battle of Leuktra, his Thebans smashed the fearsome army of Sparta that had enslaved its neighbors for 2 centuries.We follow these legendary historic events through the eyes of Mêlon, a player who has quit his areas to function with Epaminondas-embroiled, against his better judgment, within the temperature to spread democracy even while he yearns to come back to his pastoral hillside.With a student's level of understanding and an author's vibrant imagination, Hanson re-produces the old world down seriously to its personal facts-in the fat of the spear in a knight's palm towards the unusual companionship of the servant and Grasp who get into battle alongside. The Finish of Sparta is just a stirring episode and a rich, absorbing studying experience.Praise for Victor Davis Hanson: "I've never read another book that describes so well the reality that 'war lies in the dark hearts of us all' but that history provides hope."-William Shawcross on The Father of Us All"Several writers protect both current activities and history-and none with the brilliance and erudition of Victor Davis Hanson."-Max Boot on The Father of Us All"Enthralling."-Christopher Hitchens on The Western Way of War