Ancient Warfare: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Product Group: Book
Publisher: OUP Oxford (2004-11-25)
ISBN: 0192804707
EAN: 9780192804709
Dewy Decimal #: 355.40901
Paperback: 166 pages

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Not quite what you might expect
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(3)
Date: 2005-05-04
7 out of 11 customers found this reveiw helpful

This is an interesting and thought provoking book, though rather than a factual introduction - as the title might suggest - it does rather go off the point into a debate about whether or not there ever was a uniquely Western style of war. Given the contraints implied by the "Very Short Introduction", this is a shame, as there is then little room for the book's proper subject matter: discussion of how ancient wars were actually fought does not appear until chapter 5 (of 7). But it does get going, and is then worth buying for chapters 5 and 6 alone.

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