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Fighting Men: How Men Have Fought Through the Ages
by Henry Treece
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Written with arms historian R. Ewart Oakeshott, Fighting Men surveys the changing equipment and experience of soldiers across a wide historical range. The authors explain how weapons, armour, formations and fortifications responded to one another, placing technical development within the practical conditions of battle rather than presenting a simple march of progress.
The book also considers the social role of the fighter, from warrior elites and professional troops to mass armies. Illustrations and comparative examples make clear that tactics depend on training, terrain, resources and political organisation. Because its scope crosses many periods, the work is assigned to Political History without an artificially broad single historical-period relationship.
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