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The Western Way of War, Infantry Battle in Classical Greece
by Victor Davis Hanson • John Keegan (Introduction)
- HISTORY
- 2000
- PAPER
- 271 PAGES
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A noted classical scholar examines fighting among infantry soldiers during the classical age in Greece. Hanson argues that the value in the West placed on head-to-head confrontation and direct assault was here born. Hanson draws on many sources to describe in vivid detail the environment, methods, and experience on the ancient Greek battlefield.
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