The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece

by Victor Davis Hanson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195065883
• ISBN13: 9780195065886
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 7.9"