Title: The Western way of war :
Authors: Hanson, Victor Davis.
Date: 1989
Publisher: Knopf :
Physical description: xxiv, 244 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC classification: U
Contents: I: The Greeks and modern warfare -- 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 -- II: The ordeal of the Hoplite -- The burden of Hoplite arms and armor -- The old men -- The dread of massed attack -- III: The triumph of will -- A soldier's general -- Unit spirit and morale: The origins of the regimental system -- Drink -- IV: Battle! -- The charge -- A collision of men -- Tears and gaps -- The push and collapse -- Confusion, misdirection, and mob violence -- V: Aftermath -- The killing field -- The wounded -- Epilogue.
Notes: "A Borzoi book." Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Infantry drill and tactics--History.; Military art and science--Greece--History.; Strategic culture.