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    ANCIENT WARFARE readings THE RISE OF MACEDON

    Oct 07, 2022 2 minutes

    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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