The Great Armies of Antiquity.(Book Review)

From: The Historian | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: Fronda, Michael P. | Copyright information

The Great Armies of Antiquity. By Richard A. Gabriel. (Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 2002. Pp. xxi, 430. $59.95.)

This ambitious book traces the development of military technology, theory, and practice from the Bronze Age until the fall of Constantinople (AD 1453). During this period, according to Richard A. Gabriel, ancient warfare assumed "truly modern proportions in terms of the size of the armies involved, the administrative mechanisms required to sustain them, t...

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