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Ambush; Surprise Attack in Ancient Greek Warfare
by Sheldon, Rose Mary
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 1848325924
- ISBN 13
- 9781848325920
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London: Frontline Books, 2012. Frontline Books Edition, presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. xxvi, [12], 282 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Abbreviations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Colonel Rose Mary Sheldon is a professor of History at the Virginia Military Institute. Her field of specialty is ancient intelligence history. There are two images of warfare that dominate Greek history. The better known is that of Achilles, the Homeric hero skilled in face-to-face combat to the death. He is a warrior who is outraged by deception on the battlefield. The alternative model, equally Greek and also taken from Homeric epic, is Odysseus, 'the man of twists and turns' of The Odyssey. To him, winning by stealth, surprise or deceit was acceptable. Greek warfare actually consists of many varieties of fighting. It is common for popular writers to assume that the hoplite phalanx was the only mode of warfare used by the Greeks. The fact is, however, that the use of spies, intelligence gathering, ambush, and surprise attacks at dawn or at night were also a part of Greek warfare, and while not the supreme method of defeating an enemy, such tactics always found their place in warfare when the opportunity or the correct terrain or opportunity presented itself.Ambush will dispel both the modern and ancient prejudices against irregular warfare and provides a fresh look at the tactics of the ancient Greeks.
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- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 72978
- Title
- Ambush; Surprise Attack in Ancient Greek Warfare
- Author
- Sheldon, Rose Mary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Frontline Books Edition, presumed first printing
- ISBN 10
- 1848325924
- ISBN 13
- 9781848325920
- Publisher
- Frontline Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- Ambush, Brasidas, Cavalry, Deception, Demosthenes, Diodorus Siculus, Hoplites, Iliad, Mercenaries, Peloponnesian, Phalanx, Odysseus, Polyaenus, Polybius, Sparta, Military Tactics, Thucydides, Trickery, Xenophon
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