A History Of Warfare - Softcover

Keegan, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394280636 ISBN 13: 9780394280639

Publisher: Vintage Canada, 1994

Synopsis

One of the world' s foremost military historians offers a sweeping view of the place of warfare in civilization.  Probing the meanings, motivations, and methods underlying war throughout history, John Keegan suggests why, in 2,000 years, humanity has not advanced far beyond the acceptance of violence on honorable terms.  Keegan argues that while all civilizations owe their origins to war-making, their survival ultimately depends on taming man s enormous and enduring capacity for violence.

Keegan offers a sweeping view of the place of warfare in human culture and a brilliant exposition of the human impulse toward violence. Beginning with the premise that all civilizations owe their origins to warmaking, Keegan probes the meanings, motivations, and methods underlying war in different societies over the course of more than two thousand years, demonstrating how particular cultures give rise to their own styles of warmaking. A History of Warfare also examines the great changes in military technology from the discoveries of bronze and iron to the 20th century mobilization of science and industry culminating in the development of the atomic bomb.

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A History of Warfare /KEEGAN JOHN The acclaimed author of The Face of Battle examines centures of conflict in a variety of diverse societies and cultures. "Keegan is at once the most readable and the most original of living military historians . . . A History of Warfare is perhaps the most remarkable study of warfare that has yet been written".--The New Yor Full description

Review:

"John Keegan is at once the most readable and the most original of military historians... His book is a work of massive sweep...the most remarkable study of warfare that has yet been written." (Michael Howard New York Times Review of Books)

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Canada
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0394280636
• ISBN 13: 9780394280639
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496