History Of Light Infantry

For a long time peace was understood in negative fashion, simply as the absence of war. -Yvon Garlan Kendrick Pritchett in the introduction to the book “The Greek State at War” points out that in order to write history of Greek Warfare one “…would require a knowledge of many aspects of Greek life. The would-be investigator would have to be familiar with terrain in the case of any given battle, have an acquaintance with the …showed first 75 words of 1825 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1825 total…The Origins of War. From the Stone Age to Alexander The Great” Greeks at War, Men at Arms Series (Osprey Publishing, London, 1979) Herodotus “The Histories” (Penguin, New York, 1996) * Xenophon in Seven Volumes, 3. (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA; William Heinemann, Ltd., London, 1980.) * Plutarch, “Moralia” http://www.persus.tufts.edu, Persus Project. * Xenophon, “Hellenica” * Xenophon, “Anabasis” * Diodorus Book 15 * Thucydides “History of Peloponnesian War” Ancient Greece (Cambridge University Press, 1998) (*) - Machine readable text Copyright 1995 Perseus Project, Harvard University.