Victor Davis Hanson has some controversial ideas but I've enjoyed The Western Way of War: Infantry Battle In Classical Greece; Carnage and Cultures; and Wars of the Ancient Greeks. I recently got his latest one A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War but haven't read it yet.
Donald Kagan's On the Origins of War is interesting - comparisons between the Peloponnesian War and WWI, the Punic Wars and WWI, and a discussion of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He's also done a 4-volume work on the Peloponnesian War and more recently a condensed one-volume book on that war.
Some ancient authors that haven' been mentioned are Caesar's War Commentaries and Xenophon's Anabasis.
A good source for the French involvement in Vietnam is Bernard Fall, a French journalist who was killed there. I read his Hell in a Very Small Place about Dien Bien Phu many years ago. His Street Without Joy is supposed to be good but I haven't read it.
Donald Kagan's On the Origins of War is interesting - comparisons between the Peloponnesian War and WWI, the Punic Wars and WWI, and a discussion of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He's also done a 4-volume work on the Peloponnesian War and more recently a condensed one-volume book on that war.
Some ancient authors that haven' been mentioned are Caesar's War Commentaries and Xenophon's Anabasis.
A good source for the French involvement in Vietnam is Bernard Fall, a French journalist who was killed there. I read his Hell in a Very Small Place about Dien Bien Phu many years ago. His Street Without Joy is supposed to be good but I haven't read it.
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