The western way of war infantry battle in Classical Greece
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Berkeley [etc.] :
University of California Press
2009
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ordinary things, ordinary people
- A Western way of war
- Not strategy, not tactics
- The hoplite and his Phalanx: war in an agricultural society
- Sources of inquiry
- The burden of hoplite arms and armor
- The old men
- The dread of massed attack
- A soldier's general
- Unit spirit and morale: the origins of the regimental system
- Drink
- The charge
- A collision of men
- Tears and gaps
- The push and collapse
- Confusion, misdirection, and mob violence
- The killing field
- The wounded
- Epilogue
