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Full Name: Donald Kagan
Biography:
(1932-2021) Historian, author. Donald Kagan was born in Kursenai, Lithuania, and died in Washington, District of Columbia.
Author's Timeline:
1932 (Unknown) County
Donald Kagan was born in Kursenai, Lithuania, on May 1, 1932. 
1933 Kings County
Mr. Kagan's father died when Donald was an infant and his mother moved with him and his sister to New York and settled in Brooklyn in the early 1930s. 
1954 Kings County
Mr. Kagan attended Thomas Jefferson High School and graduated from Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York, in 1954. 
2000 (Unknown) County
While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today
(Pub: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 0312206240 / 978-0312206246 )
Nonfiction written with Frederick W. Kagan. 
1994 (Unknown) County
On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace
(Pub: Doubleday ISBN: 0385423748 / 978-0385423748 )
Nonfiction. 
2021 (Unknown) County
Donald Kagan died at a retirement home in Washington, District of Columbia, on August 6, 2021. 
2003 (Unknown) County
The Peloponnesian War
(Pub: New York, NY: Viking Press ISBN: ?0670032115 / 978-0670032112 )
History. 
1969 (Unknown) County
The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
(Pub: Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press ISBN: 0801405017 / 978-0801405013 )
History. 
1990 (Unknown) County
Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy
(Pub: New York, NY: The Free Press ISBN: 0029168252 / 978-0029168257 )
History. 
2009 (Unknown) County
Thucydides: The Reinvention of History
(Pub: New York, NY: Viking Press ISBN: 0670021296 / 978-0670021291 )
History. 
1981 (Unknown) County
The Peace Of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition
(Pub: Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press ISBN: 0801413672 / 978-0801413674 )
History. 
2013 (Unknown) County
Men of Bronze: Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece
(Pub: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691143013 / 978-0691143019 )
History edited by Donald Kagan and Gregory F. Viggiano. 
? Tompkins County
Mr. Kagan taught in the Department of History at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. 

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