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020			_a9781788312370 (hardback)
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050	0	0	_aDS66, _bB758 2019
090			_aDS66, B758 2019
100	1		_aBryce, Trevor, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aWarriors of Anatolia : _ba concise history of the Hittites / _cTrevor Bryce.
260			_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bI.B.Tauris, _c2019.
300			_axi, 288 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 280-281) and index.
520			_a"The Hittites in the Late Bronze Age became the mightiest military power in the Ancient Near East. Yet their empire was always vulnerable to destruction by enemy forces; their Anatolian homeland occupied a remote region, with no navigable rivers; and they were cut off from the sea. Perhaps most seriously, they suffered chronic under-population and sometimes devastating plague. How, then, can the rise and triumph of this ancient imperium be explained, against seemingly insuperable odds? In his lively and unconventional treatment of one of antiquity's most mysterious civilizations, whose history disappeared from the records over three thousand years ago, Trevor Bryce sheds fresh light on Hittite warriors as well as on the Hittites' social, religious and political culture and offers new solutions to many unsolved questions. Revealing them to have been masters of chariot warfare, who almost inflicted disastrous defeat on Rameses II at the Battle of Qadesh (1274 BCE), he shows the Hittites also to have been devout worshippers of a pantheon of storm-gods and many other gods, and masters of a new diplomatic system which bolstered their authority for centuries"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aHittites.
650		0	_aMilitary history, Ancient.
651		0	_aMiddle East _xHistory, Military.
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