Lords of the Sea by John Hale

This is realy a story of the birth of democracy in ancient Greece from 500BC to 332BC and should be read by everyone to see why the great city of Athens existed for such a short time with all the brillant people thatt were living then. It also lets us see that wars and hatred was rampant with European areas and Persia and her great expanse. We just never seem to learn from history-partly cause noone reads anything they don't want o know about. Like the book Help by Kay Sockett to alert us to the terrible way the negro was treated after WW 2 in our southern states . No wonder there was such a revolt in our country. We just don't study enough history and all we promote is math and science. It should be balanced .