Adrian Goldsworthy. Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors.

Horrific. I previously expressed opinion on the degradation of the British humanities and on Andy/Adie  Goldsworthy in particular. Has the depth of analysis deserving only six-to-eight grader school project. I checked it out in a vain hope that in a more than a pound book there is some information about 1) the structure of Macedonian society (very little), 2) Macedonian culture--if not an oxymoron--and its place in contemporaneous Greece, 3) contemporary geopolitics, 4) mutual penetration of the Greek and Indian cultures, and 5) some explanations why a tiny state on the border of Thracia and  Peloponnesus conquered much of Western Eurasia and Egypt and installed its generals as the heads of the local dynasties --almost none. All the book contains is a sophomoric description of battles, elephants and Alexander's drunken binges. The author can object that there is scarce information about most of these subject. But if you know next to nothing about the subject of your principal expertise--is not it the time to begin selling used cars?