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Ian Shaw: Ancient Egyptian Warfare (2019, Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC, Casemate) 4 stars

Review of 'Ancient Egyptian Warfare' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

This is a nice entry-point into understanding the big themes in Ancient Egyptian military history. My one qualm is that Ian Shaw condensed this work from his much larger volume on Ancient Egypt and thus many portions of the book assumes a lot of prior knowledge on the part of the reader. I think this book may work better if you have read general histories of Ancient Egypt and have a familiarity with place names, important figures, and the various dynastic periods. Nevertheless, this is an interesting piece of the specific characteristics of Egyptian warfare, international relations, and technological transfer among Late Bronze Age societies.