Where War Began: A Military History of the Middle East from the Birth of Civilization to Alexander the Great and the Romans

by Arthur Cotterell

Book Overview

Bloody fighting between rival tribes and clans has existed since the dawn of Homo sapiens, but war as we knew it began to take the more organized forms we recognize today in the ancient Near East, starting in the vital region near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (modern Iraq) and ultimately extending west to the Mediterranean Sea through what became the Holy Land of the Bible, a region eventually contested by Egypt, the Roman Empire, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811771458
• ISBN13: 9780811771450
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"