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Books like History of the Peloponnesian War
The best books like History of the Peloponnesian War are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Guns, Germs, and Steel, and The Art of War. History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is about war, power, democracy. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
Both dig into power.
Read the summary → - Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Jared Diamond · Science
Guns, Germs, and Steel is Jared Diamond's attempt to answer a question posed to him by a Papua New Guinean politician named Yali: why did Europeans end up with so much cargo — wealth, technology, power — while other peoples had comparatively little?
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - The Art of War
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Sun Tzu · Philosophy
The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a general and strategist believed to have lived in the fifth century BCE.
A kindred history read.
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- Annals of Imperial Rome
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Tacitus · History
Tacitus wrote the Annals in the early second century CE as a history of Rome from the death of Augustus to the death of Nero — the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero, covering roughly 14 to 68 CE.
Shares power and empire with History of the Peloponnesian War.
Read the summary → - The Histories
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Herodotus · History
Herodotus wrote The Histories in the fifth century BCE as an inquiry into the causes of the wars between Greece and Persia that had recently convulsed the Mediterranean world.
Shares war and empire with History of the Peloponnesian War.
Read the summary → - The Lessons of History
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Will & Ariel Durant · History
The Lessons of History is the Durants' distillation of their eleven-volume The Story of Civilization — a project that consumed forty years — into a slim, hundred-page essay.
Shares power and human nature with History of the Peloponnesian War.
Read the summary → - The Laws of Human Nature
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Robert Greene · Psychology
Robert Greene is a writer whose career has been built on synthesizing historical biography and social observation into frameworks for understanding power, strategy, and human behavior.
Shares power and human nature with History of the Peloponnesian War.
Read the summary → - A People's History of the United States
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A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn · History
Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, first published in 1980, retells American history from the perspective of those who rarely appear in conventional textbooks: Native Americans, enslaved people, industrial workers, women, immigrants, and dissidents of various kinds.
Both dig into power.
Read the summary → - All Quiet on the Western Front
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque · History
All Quiet on the Western Front follows Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier who enlists with his classmates during the First World War after being swept up in patriotic speeches.
Both dig into war.
Read the summary → - Democracy in America
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Alexis de Tocqueville · History
Democracy in America, published in two volumes in 1835 and 1840, is Alexis de Tocqueville's analysis of the democratic experiment in the United States as a model for what was coming to Europe.
Both dig into democracy.
Read the summary → - Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission
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Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission
Hampton Sides · History
Ghost Soldiers tells the story of the January 1945 raid on the Cabanatuan prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines — a mission to rescue 513 American and Allied prisoners, survivors of the Bataan Death March, before the retreating Japanese army could execute them.
Both dig into war.
Read the summary → - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder · History
On Tyranny is Timothy Snyder's brief handbook drawn from the history of twentieth-century authoritarianism.
Both dig into democracy.
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Books like History of the Peloponnesian War: quick answers
What are the best books like History of the Peloponnesian War?
The best books like History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus, The Histories by Herodotus, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with History of the Peloponnesian War, such as war, power, democracy.
What should I read after History of the Peloponnesian War?
A natural next read after History of the Peloponnesian War is Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. Both dig into power. Other strong choices are Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus.
What books are similar to History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides?
History of the Peloponnesian War centers on war, power, democracy. Books with a similar feel include Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus, The Histories by Herodotus, The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
