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“... Afghanistan, and, setting out undaunted, died amid the rigours of the promised land. Professor Hammond served as a lieutenant-colonel, winning a DSO, in Greece, Crete and Syria during the last war. The direction of his study is therefore natural, and its results correspondingly valuable. This book is no doubt by way of a parenthesis to his impressive ...”

“... reader is going to invest in under normal conditions. Talbert, significantly, criticises N.G.L. Hammond’s Atlas of the Greek and Roman World in Antiquity (1981) for ‘attempting to map not only the physical and cultural landscape, but also political, military, religious, economic and other themes – all within a mere 30 map pages’, not least because ...”