When Legion Met Phalanx: The Battles That Decided How Armies Fight: 7

For centuries, the Roman legion and the Greek phalanx were the two dominant infantry systems in the Western world. When they finally met on the battlefield, the results would reshape military doctrine for a thousand years. This is the story of those brutal collisions-from Heraclea to Cynoscephalae to Magnesia-and how they forced generals to rethink everything they knew about war.This edition includes four original tactical diagrams and phase-by-phase maps that show exactly how these formations fought, broke, and died. Order-of-battle tables lay out the opposing forces, while anecdotes drawn directly from Polybius, Livy, and Plutarch bring the dust and steel to life. For readers of narrative military history who want to see not just what happened, but how it worked.