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The Great Armies of Antiquity. By Richard A. Gabriel. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2002. ISBN 0-275-97809-5. Maps. Illustrations. Figures. Selected bibliography. Index. Pp. xviii, 430. $59.95. Richard ?. Gabriel has been a prolific investigator of the armies of antiquity. Normally his books have not broken new ground but offered a wealth of enticing details on how those armies fought. This is not the case with his latest book, which is presented in scholarly dress, although at its best it is little more than a coffee table work.
Nineteen of its twenty-one chapters deal with different armies at an average length of about thirteen to fifteen pages per host. He begins with the world of the first armies, Sumer and Akkad, and then...