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War And Our World: The Reith Lectures 1998
John Keegan
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Description for War And Our World: The Reith Lectures 1998
Paperback. John Keegan concentrates in this book on significant war themes: the impact of war on the 20th century and the forms it has taken; the origin of war in human nature and history; the adoption and use of war by states as an instrument of policy; and the experience of war by individuals. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DNF; HB; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 10. Weight in Grams: 130. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
War has afflicted the life of mankind in this century as it has done in no other. The First World War killed ten million people, the Second fifty million, and wars since 1945 have killed millions more. Nuclear weapons, a product of the Second World War, have the potentiality not only to destroy lives on a scale greater than any yet explained or even imagined but to obliterate organised society itself. Because the story of war is intertwined with that of mankind from the earliest recorded times, no short book can encompass its whole history. John Keegan therefore concentrates in ... Read more
War has afflicted the life of mankind in this century as it has done in no other. The First World War killed ten million people, the Second fifty million, and wars since 1945 have killed millions more. Nuclear weapons, a product of the Second World War, have the potentiality not only to destroy lives on a scale greater than any yet explained or even imagined but to obliterate organised society itself. Because the story of war is intertwined with that of mankind from the earliest recorded times, no short book can encompass its whole history. John Keegan therefore concentrates in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Pimlico
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780712665667
SKU
KKD0000311
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About John Keegan
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, A History of Warfare (awarded the Duff Cooper Prize), Warpaths, The Battle for History, The First ... Read more
Reviews for War And Our World: The Reith Lectures 1998
Majestic...War, he argues, has been the curse of our civilization and our century. Never has war been so destructive as in the late industrial era, and he backs his claim with a superb sweep of history since the beginning of organised warfare, armies and fortification, to the present age of the nuclear bomb, smart weapons, the urban gueriila and the ... Read more