The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle in Classical Greece
"A small masterpiece of style and scholarship."  --The Economist"Enthralling. . . . One closes this book wishing that its final verdict  was as well known as more familiar tenets of Greek wisdom."  --Christopher  Hitchens,Newsday"[Hanson's] vivid style and meticulous combing of the ancient literary,  archaeological, and epigraphical sources have produced a near masterpiece of  historical imagination and reconstruction. . . . Masterful and gripping."  --Journal of Interdisciplinary History"[Hanson] has opened up a whole new way of looking at classical Greek  war-fare. . . . The study of Greek warfare can never be quite the same again."  --Journal of Hellenic Studies