Victor David Hanson, professor of Classical History at the University of California, covers in this excellent and daring work a millennium of Greek wars, from the emergence of the Greek city-state to the rise of Alexander the Great, his conquests, and the Hellenization of the barbarian world.
From the Messenian Wars, the battle of Leuctra, the battle of Hysiae, the battle of the Chains, the Ionian Revolution, the battle of Sphacteria, the battles of Marathon and Thermopylae, the naval battle of Salamis, the battles of Plataea and Mycale, the battle of Coronea, it reaches the fratricidal Peloponnesian War to end with the campaign and conquests of Alexander the Great to India, claiming that everything the West knows about the art of war, it has taken from the Greeks.