A History of Warfare
Author(s): John Keegan
A History of Warfare stresses that warmaking, for all its destructiveness, has been an inescapable feature of human culture since organised societies emerged. It also recognises, however, that man has consistently sought to limit the effects of his own capacity for violence and that now, in the nuclear age, he has no alternative to making limitation effective if he is to survive.
General Information
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- : Random House
- : Pimlico
- : 0.37
- : 01 October 2004
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : John Keegan
- : Paperback
- : 355.0209
- : 448
- : 16 b/w plates
More About The Product
The definitive history of warfare told by Britain's foremost military historian.
"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 * "Masterpiece...one of those rare books which could still be required reading in its field a hundred years from now." * The New Yorker * "Our finest military historian has produced a book of breathtaking scope...A tour de force." -- Niall Ferguson * Daily Mail * "The best book I read in 1993 was A History of Warfare...a dazzling display of historical pyrotechnics." -- Paul Johnson * Sunday Times, Books of the Year * "Magnificent" * Sunday Telegraph *
John Keegan is the Defence Editor of the Daily Telegraph and Britain's foremost military historian. The Reith Lecturer in 1998, he is the author of many bestselling books including The Face of Battle, Six Armies in Normandy, Battle at Sea, The Second World War, The Mask of Command, Warpaths, The Battle for History, The First World War, and most recently, Intelligence in War. For many years John Keegan was the Senior Lecturer in Military History at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and he has been a Fellow of Princeton University and Delmas Distinguished Professor of History at Vassar. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He received the OBE in the Gulf War honours list, and was knighted in the Millennium honours list in 1999.
