ANCIENT WARFARE: Volume 16.6 Alexander attacks Persia

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Theme: Alexander attacks Persia
* Alexander's invasion of Asia Minor - Hellenism ascendant.
* Finally facing Darius - Alexander at Issus
* Conflicting accounts of a famous battle - The charge across the River Granicus
* Phalangites with javelins - A preponderance of points
* Alexander's phalanx commanders - Men you can trust

Features:
* The mysterious massacre at Sandby Borg in AD 500 - Scandinavia's bloody Pompeii
* A cruel but unusual punishment - Decimation in the Roman army
* Testing reconstructed Roman ballistae - In the engine's sights
* The Domitius Ahenobarbus reliefs - Detail in the census
* Akhenaten's Nubian campaign - The pacificst goes to war
* Painters and decorators in the Roman army - Tectores et pictores
* The tombstone of Viatorinus - Felled by Franks