Greece and Rome at War — Peter Connolly

Connolly's illustrated history of ancient warfare remains the most thorough visual account of how Greek and Roman armies actually fought. Drawing on archaeology, ancient art, and decades of military reconstruction, he examines equipment, tactics, and organisation across seven centuries of Mediterranean conflict. The illustrations — many produced from Connolly's own reconstruction work — are still unsurpassed, and the text brings the same precision to questions of battlefield mechanics that most popular histories reserve for narrative drama.

Winner of the Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation and praised across the profession for its archaeological rigour, this book has been in print continuously since 1981. 'The best guide to how ancient armies actually functioned.' — Classical Review