A History of Warfare

A History of Warfare

by John Keegan
A History of Warfare

A History of Warfare

by John Keegan

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Overview

The acclaimed author and preeminent military historian John Keegan examines centuries of human conflict. From primitive man in the bronze age to the end of the cold war in the twentieth century, Keegan shows how armed conflict has been a primary preoccupation throughout the history of civilization and how deeply rooted its practice has become in our 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 York Times Book Review.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780679730828
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/01/1994
Pages: 496
Sales rank: 538,217
Product dimensions: 5.22(w) x 7.95(h) x 1.15(d)

About the Author

John Keegan was for many years senior lecturer in military history at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, and has been a fellow at Princeton University and a visiting professor of history at Vassar College. He is the author of twenty books, including the acclaimed The Face of Battle and The Second World War. He lived in Wiltshire, England until his death in 2012.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. War in Human History
Interlude: Limitations on Warmaking

2. Stone
Interlude: Fortification

3. Flesh
Interlude: Armies

4. Iron
Interlude: Logistics and Supply

5. Fire

Conclusion
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