Description and condition: Brown boards hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 255pp, index, maps, b/w and colour illustrations. Good or better copy, bumped corners, blind-stamped personal library mark present, else nice clean pages. In similar dustcover with light edgewear. Contents: The ancient art of war. From Sargon the Great to Cyrus: Mesopotamia and Assyria; warlords of the Nile; Syria and Palestine; the Persian Colossus. From Cyprus to Alexander the Great: Greece: the power and the glory, the road to ruin; Alexander the Great and after. From bandit stockade to world empire: the Roman republic; the roman empire. Epilogue: the legacy of ancient warfare. Part of the Cassell History of Warfare series. |
