Warfare in the Classical World: War and the Ancient Civilisations of Greece and Rome

· Batsford Books
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This authoritative volume traces the evolution of the art of warfare in the Greek and Roman worlds between 1600BC and AD 800, from the rise of Mycenaean civilisation to the fall of Ravenna and the eventual decline of the Roman Empire. The book is also, of course, about the great military commanders, such as Alexander and Julius Caesar - men whose feats of generalship still provide material for discussion and admiration in the world's military academies.
This authoritative volume traces the evolution of the art of warfare in the Greek and Roman worlds between 1600BC and AD 800, from the rise of Mycenaean civilisation to the fall of Ravenna and the eventual decline of the Roman Empire. The book is also, of course, about the great military commande...

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John Warry is a retired Cambridge scholar who recruited a number of his academic peers to produce a definitive book of the war between the Greeks, Romans and Carthaginians.

John Warry is a retired Cambridge scholar who recruited a number of his academic peers to produce a definitive book of the war between the Greeks, Romans and Carthaginians.

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