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Description: ISBN 0712698507 / Author: John Keegan / Genre: Politics / Society / Philosophy / In this book, winner of the Duff Cooper prize, the ... more Newest Review: ... the Western history. Apart from the introduction and the epilogue, devoted to the extensive discussion of 'what war is' and ... more |
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The Second World War in the Far East (Smithsonian History of Warf
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Format: paperback (B format), Publisher: Vintage, ISBN: 071269850
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by MagdaDH - written on 03.11.05 (Very useful, 394 readings)
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'History of Warfare' presents a look at the whole European/Western history (with substantial incursions into other cultures, notably China and Japan) from the perspective of warmaking. Considering how important warfare is in history as we know it, it's not surprising that Keegan's narrative is fairly coherent and rarely interrupted. From a war to a war, from a battle to a battle, with a revolution or a conquest thrown in for a good measure, pretty much everything in the outline of the known history gets covered. The book varies in how detailed its account of actual events, dates and battles is in relation to a more general discussion of developments in ...
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