Legion Versus Phalanx: The Epic Struggle for Infantry Supremacy in the Ancient World by Myke Cole

Legion Versus Phalanx: The Epic Struggle for Infantry Supremacy in the Ancient World

Myke Cole

288 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history informative fast-paced
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From the time of Ancient Sumeria, the heavy infantry phalanx dominated the battlefield. Armed with spears or pikes, standing shoulder to shoulder, and with overlapping shields, they presented an impenetrable wall of wood and metal to the enemy. It...

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