Understanding War: An Annotated Bibliography (The War Trilogy, 3) - Hardcover

Christian P. Potholm

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761867732 ISBN 13: 9780761867739

Publisher: University Press of America (UK), 2016

Synopsis

The third book in Professor Christian Potholm’s war trilogy (which includes Winning at War and War Wisdom), Understanding War provides a most workable bibliography dealing with the vast literature on war and warfare. As such, it provides insights into over 3000 works on this overwhelmingly extensive material. Understanding War is thus the most comprehensive annotated bibliography available today.

Moreover, by dividing war material into eighteen overarching themes of analysis and fifty seminal topics, and focusing on these, Understanding War enables the reader to access and understand the broadest possible array of materials across both time and space, beginning with the earliest forms of warfare and concluding with the contemporary situation.

Stimulating and thought-provoking, this volume is essential for an understanding of the breadth and depth of the vast scholarship dealing with war and warfare through human history and across cultures.

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About the Author

Christian P. Potholm is the DeAlva Stanwood Alexander Professor of Government at Bowdoin College. He has taught courses on war and international relations for over 50 years and is the author of numerous books on warfare, including the War Quartet: Winning at War: The Template of Mars, War Wisdom: A Cross-Country Analysis, Understanding War: An Annotated Bibliography, and Hiding in Plain Sight: Women Warriors throughout Time and Space. He resides in Harpswell, Maine

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of America (UK)
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761867732
• ISBN 13: 9780761867739
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 718