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ANCIENT WARFARE readings THE RISE OF MACEDON

MILITARY THEORY AND PRACTICE IN THE AGE OF XENOPHON

By J.K. Anderson

University of California Press, 1970

ISBN: 978-0520015647

First published in 1970 and still a classic of fourth century warfare, Anderson is a first stop for any history of the way wars were fought up to the dawn of the Macedonian age to give a context for

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