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16%OFFRoger Spiller - An Instinct for War: Scenes from the Battlefields of History - 9780674024199 - V9780674024199
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An Instinct for War: Scenes from the Battlefields of History

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Description for An Instinct for War: Scenes from the Battlefields of History Paperback. Talks about how war forever alters the landscape - both human and geographic - and how individuals can alter the nature of battle. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 28. Weight in Grams: 438.

Stories about war are some of the oldest stories told--used to entertain, to glorify, to lament, to educate. An Instinct for War utilizes myriad tales of war to offer a remarkable look at one of humanity's oldest plagues. Roger Spiller excavates the essence of war and its evolution through the words and thoughts of those who led--and those who were led--into battle, moving from the perspective of an ancient Chinese emperor to Napoleon's command, from a Civil War soldier's final days to the particularities of today's small wars throughout the globe.

Spiller combines a mastery of the primary ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674024199
SKU
V9780674024199
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99-50

About Roger Spiller
Roger Spiller is George C. Marshall Professor of Military History, Emeritus, at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.

Reviews for An Instinct for War: Scenes from the Battlefields of History
Roger Spiller is the least conventional of historians. For years, he has laboured on a book on the nature of war, and he has cast it in fictional form… This thought-provoking book represents an infusion of a lifetime’s reading and thought about war, and renders the dimensions of conflict comprehensible to all. This is an achievement rare among historians, and ... Read more

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