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. Drawing on original ...
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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. Drawing 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) - he 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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Let me start by saying you must read the preface..I have never read a book that is front the one set so inspirational with out reading through the book itself..If only for the words of the author Myke Cole in his preface, it is a book truly worth possessing.His style of writing brings to life a bygone era in military history and the manner in which he develops the subject of the conflict of the Roman-Greeco empires is amazing.It is not complicated but intriguing..I have read the works of many respected military history authors but this one, is in my opinion is amongst the finest pieces of miltary history I have come across..If you have ever read the Great Siege of Malta 1566 or The Roman Invasion of Britain by Leonard Cottrell, then you may understand where I am coming from.His detail in this work is both meticulous yet reader friendly..If you actually what to understand how Rome defeated the powerful armies of Greece, the changes in weapons and tactics in the age of sword and spear then read this book.