TY - BOOK AU - Coggins,Jack TI - Soldiers and warriors: an illustrated history SN - 0486452573 U1 - 355.3309 PY - 2006/// CY - Mineola, NY PB - Dover Publications KW - Soldiers KW - Armies KW - Military history N1 - Originally publlished: Garden City, NY under title: The fighting man. 1966; Includes index; Includes bibliographical references and index; The ancient world. The Egyptians ; The Assyrians ; The Scyths ; The Medes and Persians -- The Greeks. Sparta ; Athens ; The March of the Ten Thousand ; Thebes ; Macedonia ; Siege warfare -- The Romans. The Punic Wars ; The Marian legions ; The legions of Caesar ; The slow death of empire -- The Vikings -- Byzantium -- The Normans -- Crescent and cross -- The Mongols. Genghis Khan ; Subotai ; Kublai Khan -- The bowmen of England -- The Swiss pikemen -- The Spaniards -- The Swedes. The Lion of the North ; The Boy-King -- Cromwell -- The Prussians of Frederick the Great. The world in arms -- The Napoleonic Wars. The armies of the Republic ; The Empire ; The British redcoat ; Waterloo -- The Germans. World War I ; The Wehrmacht -- The Russians. Peter the Great ; The Napoleonic Wars ; The frontiers ; World War I ; The Red Army ; The German invasion ; Today's soldier ; The Cossacks -- The French. The Second Empire ; World War I ; The Maginot Line ; The post-war army ; The French Foreign Lagion -- The British. Empire builders ; The Crimean War ; The Sepoy Mutiny ; The Boer Wars ; World War I ; The Empire at bay ; The Royal Navy ; Today's forces -- The Japanese ; The Samurai code ; The end of isolation ; The rise to power ; The grand design ; The struggle for the Pacific ; The new army -- The Chinese. The People's Liberation Army -- Native troops. The Gurkhas ; The Sikhs ; The Pathans ; The Dervishes ; The Ethiopians ; The Zulus -- The United States. The Regular Army ; The War of 1812 ; "A pretty rough bunch" ; The Civil War ; The Indian fighting army ; The Spanish-American War ; The American Expeditionary Force ; The post-war army ; The global war ; The Marines ; Korea ; Air power and the atom bomb ; The new look ER -