1st Edition
The Origins Of War From The Stone Age To Alexander The Great, Revised Edition
By Arther Ferrill
Copyright 1997
240 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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When did war begin? Standard military accounts tend to start with the Graeco-Persian wars, laying undue emphasis on the preeminence of Greek heavy infantry. But, as this strikingly original and entertaining book shows, the origins of war can be traced back not to the Iron Age, or even to the Bronze Age, but to the emergence of settled life itself nearly 10,000 years ago. The military revolution... Read more
* Prehistoric Warfare * Ancient Near Eastern Warfare: The Copper-Bronze Age * Assyria and Persia: The Age of Iron * Classical Greek Warfare * The Military Revolution * Alexander the Great and the Origins of Modern War
Biography
Arther Ferrill
