History of Warfare - John Keegan

'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 ...