About this title: In this book, winner of the Duff Cooper prize, the author, a military historian, provides not merely a history of warfare but an analysis of world history, and the role that man's impulse to war has played in it. This book is the result of 30 years of reading, research, teaching and commenting on military affairs. It brings together in a single volume the themes explored in the author's earlier books and adds to them the insights gained in his visits to many of the world's major battlefields, a lifetime's friendship with soldiers of different armies and his more recent experience as a war ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780394588018ISBN:0394588010
Description: Good. A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dustcover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "from the library of" labels. Return Policy Any defects, damages, or material differences with your item, must be reported to us within 7 days of receipt of the item or 30 days from date of shipment. The returned merchandise must be ... read more
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679730828ISBN:0679730826
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. One, very small, corner curl(top corner of front cover). Minimal edge wear. No creasing. Text is clean and bright. Binding is tight. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 496 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679730828ISBN:0679730826
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 496 p. Audience: General/trade. First printing trade paper. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1994-11-01
ISBN-13:9780679730828ISBN:0679730826
Description: Very Good. Clean trade paperback with light cover wear. Tight square binding, no spine creases. Vintage Books, New York, 1994. xvi, 432 pages including endnotes, bibliography, index. read more
Edition: Fifth Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, New York
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780394588018ISBN:0394588010
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 432 Pages. Measures: 6-1/2" x 9-1/2" Clean, tight copy with no writings or markings. Not an Ex-Library Book. Colorfully illustrated dust jacket. Includes numerous maps and glossy photographs, Introduction, 5 Chapters, Conclusion, References, Select Bibliography, Index, and a photograph and a brief biography of the author. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780394588018ISBN:0394588010
Description: Very Good/Very Good. . Hardcover, very good condition, w. v. ltly slanted, v. ltly compressed sp, v. ltly bumped corners. Ltly tanned p. edges, sme lt dust. Pencil inscription on ffep, o/w cln, tight, unmarked. Dj very good, ltly rubbed, sme lt marks and scratches. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780679730828ISBN:0679730826
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Edge wear and scuffing to cover. Pages are clean and straight. NO writing, highlighting or dog-eared corners. Uncreased spine. Nice solid book. Fast confirm and shipping! ! ! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 496 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
"John Keegan makes this history come alive. It is well written, and researched. Nowhere will you find a more lucid or readable history. One of my favorite authors, who makes each page come alive."
"An interesting account of warfare. The roles it has historically played. How various cultures deal with and wage war. And mostly the build up to World War I and how the world changed with the mechanized military."
"Keegan divides military organizations into six categories: warrior, mercenary, slave, regular, conscript, and militia, then uses roughly structured yet pithily titled sections: Stone, Flesh, Iron, and Fire to proceed on a wide-ranging anthropological and historical review of warfare throughout the ages. Obviously, he is an eminently knowledgeable historian, though like Dr. Jared Diamond, he tends towards geographical determinism. Also, he joins B.H. Liddel-Hart in his disdain for Clauswitz' simplistic and culture-centric representation of war as an extension of politics. He includes such alternative motivations as economics, revenge, ideology, vainglory, imperial expediency, and simple land hunger. The book is very informative with many graphic examples of the various styles of warfare around the world and over the course of human history and pre-history. He does tends to meander a bit, but that's to be expected from someone who has so much in his head that the connections are limitless."
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