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1 - The strategic thought of Themistocles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2014

Victor Davis Hanson
Affiliation:
Hoover Institute
Williamson Murray
Affiliation:
Ohio State University
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Successful Strategies
Triumphing in War and Peace from Antiquity to the Present
, pp. 17 - 37
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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