Adcock, Frank Ezra. The Greek and Macedonian Art of War. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2008.
The point of a scholarly book review is not to summarize the content of the book, but to situate the
historical merit of the book and to evaluate critically the author's purpose, thesis, contentions, and
methods of analysis.
Hence, the bulk of the body of one's review essay will be an evaluation of how convincing was the author's
presentation of his/her thesis and a commentary on the book's contribution to one's understanding of
important issues in the history of warfare from antiquity until 1700
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