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 …

…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.