Book Recommendation: Greek Warfare: Myths and Realities

[Dan Diffendale]

I'm only 1/4 of the way into it, but I would already highly recommend the new (2004) book by Hans van Wees, Greek Warfare: Myths and Realities. He argues against tightly packed phalanx formations, against the "othismos"/"rugby scrum" model of combat, against the myth of the citizen-soldier (Victor Davis Hanson fans take note...), and all sorts of other things as well. It's published by Duckworth in London, ISBN 0-7156-2967-0