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History of the Art of War Volume I, trans Walter Renfroe, Univ.
Of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1975, 604 pgs., index, notes, maps, paperback
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Reviewer Comment:
Dr. Delbruck became very controversial amoung both German academic historians
and professional military leaders, especially those who wrote on hiistory. He
dared to enter both their private domains and chalenged their set ideas. From
the beginnning , in this volume he questioned and disputed the status quo
concerning the size of ancient armies in the standard modern accounts of them.
His critics today find errors in this book. Delbruck in 'circa' 1900 did not
have the mass of primary sources and archeological discoveries that have been
incorporatred into modern scholarship during the subsequent 120 years. I
include in the references here some more recent books.
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Preface
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Point of departure
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BOOK I The Persian Wars
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I. Army Strengths: Introductory Material
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II. Greek Arms and Tactics
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III. Greek Army Strengts: Conclusion
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IV. The Persian Army
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V. Battle of Marathon
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VI. Thermopylae
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VII. Artemisium
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VII. Battle of Salamis
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IX. Battle of Plataea
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BOOK II: The Greeks at Their Height
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I. Greek Tactics up to the Peloponnesian War
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II. Strategy: Pericles
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III. Mercenaries
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IV. Refinement of the Existing Tactical System in the Fourth Century
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V. Theory: Xenophon
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VI. Epaminondas
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BOOK III: The Macedonians
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I. The Macedonian Military System
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II. Alexander and Persia
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III. The Battle of Issus
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IV. The Battle of Gaugamela
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V. The Battle of Hydaspes
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VI. Alexander as a Military Commander
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VII. The Diadochi
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BOOK IV; Ancient Rome
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I. Knights and Phalanx
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II. The Manipular Phalanx
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III,. Roman Drill, Campcraft, and Discipline
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IV. Pyrrhus
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V. The First Punic War
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Book V: The Second Punic War
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Introduction
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I. The Battle of Cannae
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II. The Basic Strategic Problem of the Second Punic War
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III. The Strategic Prologue of the War in Retrospect
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IV. Rome Wins the Upper Hand
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V. The Battle of Zama-Narggara and the Echelon Tactics
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VI. Hannibal and Scipio
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BOOK VI: The Romans as World Conquerors
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I. Romans and Macedonians
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II. The Profesional Army: Chort Tactics
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III. The Centurians
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IV. Mithradates
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V. Romans and Parthians
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BOOK VII: Caesar.
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I. Introduction
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II. The Helvetian Campaign
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III. Ariovistus
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IV. The Subjection of the Belgae
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V. Vercingetorix
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VI. The Roman Art of War against the Barbarians
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VII. The Civil War in Italy and Spain
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VIII. The Campaign in Greece
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IX. The Battle of Pharsalus
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X. The Last Campaigns of the Civil War
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XI. The Elephants
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References
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