Myke Cole 
Legion versus Phalanx [PDF ebook] 
The Epic Struggle for Infantry Supremacy in the Ancient World

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Taking a populist approach to a serious subject, Myke Cole combines a novelist’s flair for drama with an ancient historian’s eye for detail to create a unique book that delves into one of the most popular areas of the Ancient World.From the time of Ancient Sumeria, the heavy infantry phalanx dominated the battlefield. Armed with spears or pikes, standing shoulder to shoulder with shields interlocking, the men of the phalanx presented an impenetrable wall of wood and metal to the enemy. Until, that is, the Roman legion emerged to challenge them as masters of infantry battle.Covering the period in which the legion and phalanx clashed (280 168 BC), Myke Cole delves into their tactics, arms and equipment, organization and deployment. He draws on original primary sources to examine six battles in which the legion fought the phalanx Heraclea (280 BC), Asculum (279 BC), Beneventum (275 BC), Cynoscephalae (197 BC), Magnesia (190 BC), and Pydna (168 BC).Cole shows how and why the Roman legion, with its flexible organization, versatile tactics and iron discipline, came to eclipse the hitherto untouchable Hellenistic phalanx and dominate the ancient battlefield.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato PDF ● Pagine 288 ● ISBN 9781472828446 ● Casa editrice Bloomsbury Publishing ● Pubblicato 2018 ● Scaricabile 3 volte ● Moneta EUR ● ID 6709471 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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