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The Encyclopedia of Warfare

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Description for The Encyclopedia of Warfare Hardback. Since war is among the oldest of human activities - long antedating the invention of writing - presumably the earliest attempts to record it took the form of poems or songs that were performed on suitable occasions. However revealing or inspiring, poems are no substitute for military theory and written history. Num Pages: 1024 pages, maps (black and white). BIC Classification: GB; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 204 x 55. Weight in Grams: 2334.

‘Every age has its own kind of war.’ – Clausewitz, On War
Raids, invasions and sieges; trench battles, naval encounters and aerial dogfights; civil wars, guerrilla wars, trade wars and nuclear wars; wars of succession, religion and independence – wars have been fought in all kinds of ways and for all kinds of reasons.
From the ancient world to the Arab Spring, from the Hundred Years’ War to the Six Day War, from the Wars of the Roses to the Opium Wars, across over 1000 pages The Encyclopedia of Warfare presents the reader with more than ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Amber Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1024
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782740230
SKU
V9781782740230
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2

About Dennis Showalter
Dennis E. Showalter was a professor of history at Colorado College who specialized in German military history. He was President of the American Society for Military History from 1997 to 2001. He was the winner of the 1992 Birdsall Prize, the 2005 Samuel Eliot Morison Prize and the 2018 Pritzker Literature Award. He also served as a consultant for the ... Read more

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