War

Dyer, Gwynne

ISBN 10: 0517556154 ISBN 13: 9780517556153

Publisher: Crown Pub, 1988

Synopsis

Traces the history of warfare from ancient times to the present and analyzes war as a part of society

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Review:

Dyer bolsters his extensive knowledge with a rhetorical style that is at once invisible and entirely convincing. War [is] at once a valuable historical treatise and a fervent and compelling call toward pacifism. --Publishers' Weekly

Dr. Gwynne Dyer is one of Canada s best known defense and foreign policy analysts. --National Post

His book is no simple narrative but a web of connections. The text ranges over the terrain of history, sparkling with insight and digressions... As an interpretive history of war, War is brilliant. --The Seattle Times

About the Author:

GWYNNE DYER served in the Canadian, British, and American navies. He earned a Ph.D. in military history from the University of London, and was a senior lecturer in war studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. The original version of this book, published in 1985, won a Columbia University School of Journalism Award. A seven-part television series based upon War was broadcast in forty-five countries in the mid-1980s; one of the episodes was nominated for an Academy Award. Dyer writes a twice-weekly newspaper column on international affairs and security policy that is published by 175 newspapers worldwide, many in the U. S. He lives in London with his wife and children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown Pub
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0517556154
• ISBN 13: 9780517556153
• Binding: Library Binding