55
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (New York: WW. Norton, 1997), 112.
56
Ibid., 135–140.
57
Ibid., 137–38, 141–42, 159–68.
58
Ibid., 176–91.
59
O’Connell, op. cit, 64-66; John Keegan, A History of Warfare (New York: Vintage, 1994), 124–26.
60
O’Connell, op. cit, 68–76.
61
W.B. Emery, Egypt in Nubia (London: Hutchinson, 1965), 105.
62
O’Connell, op. cit, 133-41; LeBlanc, op. cit, 182-83; and Keegan, op. cit, 130–32, 141–42.
63
Keegan, op. cit, 130-32; O’Connell, op. cit, 187–88.
64
Homer, op. cit, 5, 65–84.
65
Samuel Noah Kramer, History Begins at Sumer (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981), 30– 32.
66
Boris Piotrovsky, The Ancient Civilisation of Urartu (London: Barrie and Rockliff: The Cresset Press, 1969), 47.
67
Leonard Cottrell, The Warrior Pharaohs (London: Evans Brothers, 1968), 80.
68
bid., 99.
69
Ibid., 81-82; Yigael Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, trs. by M. Pearlman (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1963), 100–03.
70
Witold Rodzinski, A History of China (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1979), 164–65.
71
Robert L. O’Connell, Ride of the Second Horseman: The Growth and Death of War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 71–76.
72
Ibid., 77-83; Keegan, op. cit, 156–57.
73
Keegan, op. cit, 161.
74
Ibid., 166.
75
A. Friendly, The Dreadful Day (London: Hutchinson, 1981), 27.
76
O’Connell, op. cit, 121, 165-66; Keegan, op.cit, 168.
77
O’Connell, op. cit, 161–64, 170–73.
78
H. Saggs, The Might That Was Assyria (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1984), 258.
