Greek and Roman Warfare: Battles, Tactics, and Trickery

Greek and Roman Warfare: Battles, Tactics, and Trickery. By John Drogo Montagu. St. Paul, Minn.: MBI Publishing, 2006. ISBN 1-85367-685-3. Battle plans. Glossary. Notes. Index. Pp. 256. #34.95.

John Drogo Montagu's book is a very difficult one to review. My first reaction was to drop it immediately into the vast abyss of works which add little or nothing to scholarship. On the other hand the author is also a skillful writer (he has another title on the same period, a compendium on Battles of the Greek and Roman World), is quite enthusiastic about his project, and has a relatively clear yet unconvincing thesis about it. Problems, however, emerge from the very beginning of his analysis.

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