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Macedonian Warrior: Alexander's Elite Infantryman (Warrior) | 
| Author: Waldemar Heckel
Creator: Christa Hook
Brand: Osprey Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 279125
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.8 x 0.4
MPN: WAR103
ISBN: 1841769509
Dewey Decimal Number: 355.009381
EAN: 9781841769509
ASIN: 1841769509
Publication Date: April 25, 2006
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 Macedonian Warrior: October 3, 2008
The dealer was great. The price I paid was good but the booklet is kind of thin for full price. The information seemed solid and extended my knowledge on this topic which I admit was and is very limited.
 Nothing Exceptional April 7, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The text is adquate, but it's pretty hard to forgive sub-par illustration in an Osprey title. Christa Hook's work is relentlessly dreary. I was never enamored of Angus McBride's moody take on the Macedonian army in Osprey 148 (The Army of Alexander the Great), but aesthetically it's still superior to what is to be found here.
Biased April 20, 2007
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
Besides the fact that as an active wargamer i was expecting to see something better on the issue of painted pictures which are not good, i also despise the fact that the author tries hard to impose his personal belief that Macedonian warriors were something different than the rest of the Greek warriors of that time era. While in Persia, Alexander or Eumenes later, might have used translators to give their orders to Persian or Scythian mercenaries, but all in all, the rest of the Greeks could well understand his words and orders since he had have Greek culture and education and was speaking Greek ofcourse.
I wonder how would the author feel if i would equally say that an American citizen from Kentucky could not understand a visitor from Oxford because they speak a different language?
I was expecting something better on the basis of objective information and not biased beliefes of modern times.
The elite March 30, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A book that details the infantry,as well as the entire history, and army of Alexander the Great.The pictures and explanation of the army,the sarissas,the terminology,not to mention the physical impact is very well written.
You can certainly visualize the battles and what the soldiers went through looking and reading at this book.
Long-needed book March 29, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It seems as though most sources on the Alexandrian conquests focus on Alexander's enemies, Alexander's cavalry, or Alexander. The infantry rarely receive any attention, but as in any army, they formed the backbone of his fighting forces and he could not have waged his wars without them. This book focuses solely on them, detailing their origins, tactics, and even their personal lives. This book also helps to clear up the identity of the hypastists. Christa Hook's plates are also wonderful.
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