Did the author include anything that seemed irrelevant or tangential to the argument?

Lynn, John A. Battle: A History of Combat and Culture: From Ancient Greece to Modern America. Boulder CO: Westview, 2004.

•A brief summary of the book including the author’s thesis.
•A discussion of the author’s sources and methodology
•An evaluation of the argument
•Is it well-organised? Orderly? Logical? Clear?
•Do the chapters (and subsections) fit together?
•Did the author include anything that seemed irrelevant or tangential to the argument?
•A conclusion about the relevance and usefulness of the book