Adrian Goldsworthy, Cassell & co Goldsworthy is an academic without tenure and must needs therefore produce good stuff on a regular basis. And this is a very useful single volume on the Three Punic Wars. Goldsworthy's book on how the Roman imperial army fought was an interesting mixture of textual and archaeological work accompanied by a clear analysis of what did happen rather than what we thought happened. The Punic Wars volume is not as original but is rather a good summary, much in the style of Brian Caven. Even as a summary it has some interesting ideas on deployment and use of troops appear amongst the general analysis. I recommend it. Old Duffer's Book Corner Book Reviews The Punic Wars The Northern Wars 1558-1721 1688: A Global History Richelieu And Olivares Warfare At Sea 1500-1650 Louis XIV The Renaissance At War The Great War and Modern Memory Battles of the Greek And Roman Worlds Histoire Militaire des Guerres Puniques Dictionnaire des Maréchaux de France The War The Infantry Knew 1914-1919 The Great War The Byzantine Wars The French Civil Wars The Somme The Myth of the Great War The Wars Of The Ancient Greeks Histoire de l'armée française de 1914 à nos jours To The Last Man: Spring 1918 Flodden 1513 Verdun 1916 The Mediterranean In The Ancient World The National Army Museum Book Of The Boer War La Bataille d'Abbeville Soldier Sahibs The Celtic Empire The Imperial War Museum Book of 1918 War And The World: Military Power And The Fate of Continents Back to Perfidious Albion #103 Table of Contents Back to Perfidious Albion List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2004 by Charles and Teresa Vasey. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com