From Spear to Flintlock: A History of War in Europe and the Middle East to the French Revolution - Hardcoverby Frederic J. Baumgartner (Author) This is a fast paced survey of the history of war in the Eurasian world from classical Greece to the French Revolution. Defining the period as the era of pre industrial warfare, Frederic Baumgartner describes the broad differences, as well as the similarities, in the armies through those 2,000 years. He suggests that the Greek hoplite, the Roman legionary, the nomadic horse archer, the medieval knight, the Swiss