Warfare in the Classical World

Back in my youth, my best friend and i were obsessed with expensive ways of killing people collecting military books (well we still are to be honest). 

The Blue Riband of these books were the large format books published by Salamander which covered all sorts of military topics from the latest warships to the Chinese war machine.

My favourite of the series however covers warfare of a much earlier vintage, Classical Greece and Rome. Warfare in the Classical World by John Warry covers warfare from the heroic semi-mythical Greek age to the last days of Rome (in the West anyway). 

Published in 1980, the book is quite out-of-date nowadays ironically as there have been many new discoveries and interpretations since but i still love this book. 

It is a wonderful book to browse, richly illustrated with photographs and diagrams.