A history of warfare / John Keegan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 1994.Edition: 1st Vintage books edDescription: xvi, 432 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0679730826
  • 9780679730828
  • 0394588010
  • 9780394588018
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 355/.009 20
LOC classification:
  • U27 .K44 1994
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Contents:
War in human history -- Interlude : limitations on warmaking -- Stone -- Interlude : fortification -- Flesh -- Interlude : armies -- Iron -- Interlude : logistics and supply -- Fire.
Summary: In this ... book, [the author] demolishes the famous dictum that war is the continuation of policy by other means. On Easter Island, for example, rival factions exterminated one another in a ceaseless competition for the egg of a sooty tern. The Aztecs seem to have fought for nothing more than the captives that they slaughtered by the thousands. And what policy could possibly have informed the Gulf War, in which the United States and its allies destroyed the army of Saddam Hussein, only to leave Saddam himself securely in power? Analyzing centuries of conflict ... [he] unveils the deepest motives behind humanity's penchant for mass bloodshed.-Back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-417) and index.

War in human history -- Interlude : limitations on warmaking -- Stone -- Interlude : fortification -- Flesh -- Interlude : armies -- Iron -- Interlude : logistics and supply -- Fire.

Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 1993.

In this ... book, [the author] demolishes the famous dictum that war is the continuation of policy by other means. On Easter Island, for example, rival factions exterminated one another in a ceaseless competition for the egg of a sooty tern. The Aztecs seem to have fought for nothing more than the captives that they slaughtered by the thousands. And what policy could possibly have informed the Gulf War, in which the United States and its allies destroyed the army of Saddam Hussein, only to leave Saddam himself securely in power? Analyzing centuries of conflict ... [he] unveils the deepest motives behind humanity's penchant for mass bloodshed.-Back cover.

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