- Classical Greek Tactics: A Cultural History by Roel Konijnendijk (2018). A comprehensive reassessment of how and why Greeks fought pitched battles.
- Greek Warfare: Myths and Realities by Hans van Wees (2004). Written to address many running controversies, this work has become the new gold standard of the field – at least until the appearance of its second edition in 2020.
- The Ancient Greeks at War by Louis Rawlings (2007). Perhaps the finest recent introduction to the topic; up-to-date and comprehensive.
- The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare, Vol. 1: Greece, the Hellenistic World and the Rise of Rome, edited by Philip Sabin, Hans van Wees and Michael Whitby (2007). A collection of thematic chapters by the leading scholars of the subject working today.
- Henchmen of Ares: Warriors and Warfare in Early Greece by Josho Brouwers (2013). This book is based on the author’s PhD thesis, rewritten to be more accessible to a general audience. Offers a cultural history of warfare in ancient Greece from the Mycenaean period down to the Persian Wars.