The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece

By Victor Davis Hanson

Book Overview

Hanson thinks the ancient Greeks deliberately made warfare physically and psychologically intolerable so that no one could stand it for long and wars could be fought and settled in a single afternoon.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394571886
• ISBN13: 9780394571881
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Knopf
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 6.3"