Title: Very good, but a bit hard to read
Product review: The book is not just a window to the Ancient World military history but also to the scholar writing of late 18th Century. You really need to be concentrated to fight with the annotations at the end of each chapter which often take more pages than the own chapter.Many of the conclusions (just a sample, the relative sizes of Greek and Spartan armies or the actual location of the Marathon battle) are so in contradiction with everything we have learned that one would like to be an archeologist in position to go the (alternative) sites and search for evidences. It would be really nice to know if someone has already done it. I think this book, being published in Germany and only recently available in English, has been undeservedly ignored by almost all military (and, of course, normal) historians to date.
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