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Originally Posted by Maximus
Nope. Not Herodotus. Just a general interest in Historical Warfare techniques & strategies. A time when war used to be an art. 
About Marathon, these facts were stated in a documentary on Discovery Channel.
It is largely belived that Persians were attacked by the Greeks from the flanks and the front.
Even Wikipedia says the same.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Marathon
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Wikipedia's entry is taken directly from Herodotus. The above link I gave you is a tad more reliable. And he does not suggest that the Greeks did not win, just that the were attacking a retreating army.
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