History Of Warfare Book
The new edition of the cambridge history of warfare written and updated by a team of eight distinguished military historians examines how war was waged by western powers across a sweeping timeframe beginning with classical greece and rome moving through the middle ages and the early modern period down to the wars of the twenty first century in afghanistan iraq and syria.
History of warfare book. See the complete cassell history of warfare series book list in order box sets or omnibus editions and companion titles. He seems to take particular affront to clausewitzian theory which postulates war is a continuation of policy. A history of warfare is perhaps the most remarkable study of warfare that has yet been written the new york times book review.
War history books for general interest reading. Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone tablet or computer no kindle device required. It works well as a valuable addition for any military historian as well as serving as a great primer to the vast scope of military history.
I won t lie to you this is a long book. Keegan traces war throughout human history. In all modern history interference with science in the supposed.
Keegan traces the history of warfare from pre modern times to today or 1993 when the book was first published. War and military thought and several more. But it tells the history of the epic war between athens and sparta it is geo politics it s strategy it s leadership it s lessons in grief rhetoric and persuasion.
Professional historians normally focus on military affairs that had a major impact on the societies involved as well. History of the peloponnesian war by thucydides. Even warfare that most vivid gripping subject can prove dull when it is written of by an author who fails to create compelling prose or when a book is in the hands of someone who simply lacks an innate interest in the topic.
Enter your mobile number or email address below and we ll send you a link to download the free kindle app. A history of the warfare of science with theology in christendom was published in two volumes by andrew dickson white a founder of cornell university in 1896 in the introduction white states the original goal of his 1874 lecture on the battlefields of science and elaborated in a book the warfare of science the same year. Military history is a humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity and its impact on the societies cultures and economies thereof as well as the resulting changes to local and international relationships.
Keegan s a history of warfare is a superb book. In this book the history of warfare john keegan has turned what is in general a difficult idea that of warfare and turned it into a subject the lay reader can understand.
