{"id":527306,"date":"2010-04-14T03:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T07:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-7464699313497667307"},"modified":"2010-04-14T04:19:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T08:19:06","slug":"book-review-thutmose-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/527306","title":{"rendered":"Book Review:  Thutmose III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategypage.com\/bookreviews\/466.asp\">Strategy Page<\/a> (A.A. Nofi)<\/p>\n<p>Thutmose III: The Military Biography of Egypt&#8217;s Greatest Warrior King<br \/>By Richard A. Gabriel<br \/>Washington: Potomac Books, 2009.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Largely due to his extensive propaganda, most historians cite the megalomaniacal Ramses II as Egypt&#8217; s &#8220;greatest&#8221; warrior king.  But a better case can be made for Thutmose III , who ruled more than a century earlier. And Prof. Gabriel (Royal Military College of Canada), author of quite a number of works on ancient warfare, makes that case very convincingly.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel opens with a short, but concise introduction to Egyptian history to set Thutmose&#8217;s life and campaigns within the framework of the political, economic, diplomatic, and, of course, military practice of his times.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-7464699313497667307?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strategy Page (A.A. Nofi) Thutmose III: The Military Biography of Egypt&#8217;s Greatest Warrior KingBy Richard A. GabrielWashington: Potomac Books, 2009. Largely due to his extensive propaganda, most historians cite the megalomaniacal Ramses II as Egypt&#8217; s &#8220;greatest&#8221; warrior king. But a better case can be made for Thutmose III , who ruled more than a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}