Slingshot May/June 2020

ISSUE 330 of the journal of the Society of Ancients has a good mix of articles, my favourites being Nicholas Spratt's account of a war between the Han Chinese and Xiongnu nomads, David Kay on wargaming mechanisms, and Chris Hahn on the Battle of Bosworth.

Slingshot 330 has a standard cover ... but above-standard contents

I was somewhat less impressed by an attempt to defend Herodotus's estimate of Xerxes' Persian army at having more than five million men ...