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Thutmose III: The Military Biography of Egypt's Greatest Warrior King Hardcover – Illustrated, August 1, 2009

by Richard A. Gabriel (Author)
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
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In the course of his thirty-two-year reign over ancient Egypt, Thutmose III fought an impressive seventeen campaigns. He fought more battles over a longer period of time and experienced more victories than Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar did. Despite Thutmose III’s surprisingly illustrious record, his name does not command the same immediate recognition as these highly visible military leaders. In Thutmose III, Richard Gabriel deftly brings to life the character and ability of ancient Egypt’s warrior king and sheds light on Thutmose’s key contributions to Egyptian history. Considered the father of the Egyptian navy, Thutmose created the first combat navy in the ancient world and built an enormous shipyard near Memphis to construct troop, horse, and supply transports to support his campaigns in Syria and Iraq. He also reformed the army, establishing a reliable conscript base, creating a professional officer corps, equipping it with modern weapons, and integrating chariotry’s combat arm into new tactical doctrines. Politically, he introduced strategic principles of national security that guided Egyptian diplomatic, commercial, and military policies for half a millennium and created the Egyptian empire. Through these crowning achievements, Thutmose set into motion events that shaped and influenced the Levant and Egypt for the next four hundred years. His reign can be regarded as a watershed in the military and imperial history of the entire eastern Mediterranean.
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    POTOMAC BOOKS
  4. Publication date
    August 1, 2009
  5. Dimensions
    6.25 x 0.75 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1597973734
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1597973731
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RICHARD A. GABRIEL is a distinguished professor in the Department of History and War Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada and in the Department of Defence Studies at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto. He is a former U.S. Army officer and the author of more than forty books, including Scipio Africanus, Thutmose III, Philip II of Macedonia, Hannibal, and Man and Wound in the Ancient World. He lives in Manchester, New Hampshire.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ POTOMAC BOOKS; Illustrated edition (August 1, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 252 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1597973734
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1597973731
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.14 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 0.75 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 37 ratings

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Amber Gauthia
5.0 out of 5 stars A good read!!!
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Truly enjoyed this book! Great detail! Detail format is easy to follow. Author stayed on topic and laid out the greatness of this warrior Pharoah.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative, expertly written.
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This book was very informative and likely contains everything history students and fans want to know about King Thutmose the 3rd.
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doc peterson
3.0 out of 5 stars Excellent military history - surprising lack of material on Thutmose III himself
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I admire Prof. Gabriel, but I was disappointed by the military biography of Thutmose III. The first half of the book broadly addressed the political and military layout of the eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze age. While some context is critical, I found much of the material here irrelevant to Thutmose III. The chapter on the battle of Meggiddio was outstanding, as was the pentultimate chapter on the battle of Kadesh. However, the material between these chapters was again lackluster.

While Gabriel's detailing of Thutmose III"s strategy was excellent (as one would expect), there was very little on Thutmose III himself - as "Napoleon of the Ancient World" or otherwise - this, too was disappointing. In the final analysis, its strongest parts detail specifically with military history (Prof. Gabriel's forte), but the ancillary material and particularly the details of Thutmose III were lackluster.
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H. Williams
4.0 out of 5 stars Good read but there are a couple of caveats
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The author has produced another fine work detailing the exploits of Thutmose III ,pharoh of Egypt.Here we learn how Thutmose was the one who was primarily responsible for turning Egypt from a sophisticated but isolated civilization to a first rate imperial power with a sphere of influence in the middle east and Africa.The author gives a background of the situation in the area around that time including details of the Hyskos' invasion of Egypt and its affects on the Egyptians.We also learn about the militaries of the various players in the region:the Egyptians,the cannaanite and syrian city-states and the Mitanni.Thutmose through a number of unspectacular but strategic victories seized a number of strategic towns that guarded key routes first in Canaan (Meggido),then in Interior Lebanon (near the Litani River) and then along the Coast of Lebanon and Syria before he embarked on a campaign against the Mitanni.These strategic victories had the purpose of extending Egypt's buffer zone and enhanced its national security by ensuring that any attempted invasion would be fought far away from Egypt's homeland.In the process of doing this ,Thutmose became the first commander in history to use amphibious landings to acheive surprise and speed.The lessons from this book are not only Thutmose's brilliance but that the concept of a sphere of influence is a very old one and is as much about great states seeking to protect themselves by having friendly states on their borders as much as it is about imperialism (as witnessed by the British attempt to seek a buffer around India to protect it from the Russians ,the ameican Monroe doctrine and the current Russian attempt for a "sphere of priviliged interest").The author illustrates these points in his unorthodox,questioning style that is both interesting and intriguing.That said there are flaws with this book, such as the errors and conradictions pointed out by other reviewers or the author's insistence that Thutmose was superior to Alexander in some regards.The author states that Persia was lead by a corrupt elite and was ready for the picking whilst Thutmose faced professional armies ,neglecting of course that ALexander accomplished the conquest of an empire that was superior to Macedonia in terms of wealth,size,demographics and in seapower (the last point could have worked decisively against Alexander) whereas Thutmose only managed to expand Egypt's sphere of influence over the Syrians,Canaanites and Nubians who were inferior to Egypt.He failed to destroy the Mitannis.He also foregets that Alexander fought 4 battles and 4 sieges that are considered tactical masterpieces and was also skilled in mountain warfare whereas he fails to record any such tactical masterpieces by Thutmose,indeed the most famous victory of Thutmose was at Meggido which although a strategic victory was only a minor skirmish followed by a blockade.He also says that the strategic vision for the coquest of Persia was invented by Phillip, Alexander's father,also neglecting that Thutmose's strategy was also invented by his grandfather Thutmose I.The only area in which Thutmose was superior to Alexander is the amphibious operations.Nevertheless,in spite of these flaws ,I recommend this book.
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Starlite
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Informative
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2010
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I didn't read this, I bought it for my husband. He enjoyed it very much. He was not too familiar with Tuthmose III but I've been introducing him to Egyptology. He said the book made him understand how the military worked, his campaigns, and family. He also said it was very easy to read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Warrior King Extraordinary
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If your interest is in Egyptian history this book is a must. Thutmose III was the premier, much greater than Rameses II, Egyptian king. A must read for military historians--you can't judge Caesar, Napoleon or Alexander until you compare Thutmose III.
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C. E. Boyle
2.0 out of 5 stars Poorly executed
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2009
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This book reads like a book that was cobbled together over a weekend because the author needed the money. Indeed, large chunks are cut and pasted nearly verbatim from Gabriel's other books. Worse, it is poorly executed and cries out for a proofreader. Silly errors make it difficult to have confidence in the information provided. For example: on page 54 where Gabriel writes, "[In Egypt] Except for a few places in the Nile Delta, there are no wide-open plains upon which to maneuver [chariots] *as there were in Canaan* and Syria. Yet on page 74 *"Canaan offered few smooth plains* where, the opportunities for wide-ranging maneuver and speed provided dividends." Which was it? On page 92 Thutmose captured 924 enemy chariots but on the very next page only 892 were captured. After praising the Egyptian six-spoked chariot wheel on page 59 we discover on page 75 that "The Canaanite chariot was heavier than the Egyptian vehicle *because* of its four- or six-spoked wheels." How is that exactly? These kinds of errors leave the reader wondering about the accuracy of the rest of the material. [* emphasis added]

It also fails because of unnecessary hyperbole used to build Thutmose III up and justify writing the book. Gabriel takes pains to regularly mention Thutmose's brilliance, but the most excessive hyperbole occurs early in the book. In comparing Thutmose favorably to Alexander the Great Gabriel writes; "If the greatness of a field commander is judged by the ability of the enemy he faces . . . then compared to Alexander, Thutmose must rank as the greater field commander." That is nonsense as judged by Gabriel's own criteria. The evidence provided in his book describes Thutmose's "battles" as skirmishes against inferior opposition. Certainly Thutmose was an admirable military leader but, as Gabriel's own book shows, he was no Alexander. Indeed, one significant question that goes unexamined is why there was so little serious resistance to Thutmose's raids.

Finally, some of the sentences and even paragraphs just don't make sense. The text is sometimes repetitious and appears poorly organized. Occasionally, the pictures don't reflect the equipment Gabriel describes. All of these things reflect the little effort put into the book. Save your money and don't reward Gabriel for foisting "Thutmose III" on an unsuspecting public.
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Geoff Milward
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