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Paperback The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece Book

ISBN: 0195065883

ISBN13: 9780195065886

The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece

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The origins of Western warfare lie in classical Greece, on the battlefields of Marathon and Delion, and in the strange, terrible head-on collision of Thebans and Spartans at Koroneia. Instead of the ambush, skirmish, or single combat between heroes, the Greeks of the classical age devised a ferocious, brutal, brief, and very destructive form of combat that used armed men of all ages. With this technique, they invented the central act of Western warfare--the...

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