ISBN: 9780679730828
author:
John Keegan
publishing house:
Vintage
publication date: 1994
-11
language:
English
price: USD 16.95
number of pages: 432
overview
The acclaimed author of The Face of Battle examines centures of conflict in a variety of diverse societies and cultures. "Keegan is at once the most readable and the most original of living military historians . . . A History of Warfare is perhaps the most remarkable study of warfare that has yet been written."--The New York Times Book Review.
contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 War in Human History 1
Interlude: Limitations on Warmaking 61
2 Stone 77
Interlude: Fortification 137
3 Flesh 153
Interlude: Armies 219
4 Iron 235
Interlude: Logistics and Supply 299
5 Fire 317
Conclusion 386
References 393
Select Bibliography 411
Index 418
