Victor Davis Hanson for Cassell Hanson is, you may remember, the fellow who achieved a state of simpatico with the Ancient Greeks by growing vines. His concept of the Greeks as hardy men of war living in some utopian world in which they give narsty totalitarian Persians a damned good smacking sounds like an episode too many of Davy Crockett. In this book he continues the history bewailing the fall of the Greeks (since they know no sin, how can we explain this) at the hands of Macedonian hired killers. Quite why the deeply unpleasant Spartans (or Athenians) are better than Alexander is not easy to tell. Perhaps Alexander was a Republican? All very childish, but pushing aside the cod racial theories and you have a reasonable history of the period with some good maps and illustrations, though rather too many taken from 19th century engravings (the Classic Comics of that era). 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