08-06-2010, 01:06 AM
I just recently read Victor Davis Hanson's 'The Western way of war' and I highly recommend this to anyone interested in ancient warfare. While primarily focused on Greek hoplite/phalanx warfare it covers topics ranging from ancient Greece to the much later Swiss Pikemen. Hanson's description of ancient combat is amazingly vivid, giving the reader a hoplite's view of the battlefield. Hanson is also not afraid to tackle subjects such as alchohol abuse in ancient armies.
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Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad
Mark Hayes
"The men who once dwelled beneath the crags of Mt Helicon, the broad land of Thespiae now boasts of their courage"
Philiades
"So now I meet my doom. Let me at least sell my life dearly and have a not inglorius end, after some feat of arms that shall come to the ears of generations still unborn"
Hektor, the Iliad