A History Of Warfare

Author : John Keegan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307828576

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A History of Warfare by John Keegan Pdf

The acclaimed author and preeminent military historian John Keegan examines centuries of human conflict. From primitive man in the bronze age to the end of the cold war in the twentieth century, Keegan shows how armed conflict has been a primary preoccupation throughout the history of civilization and how deeply rooted its practice has become in our 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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:908647321

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History of Warfare by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christon I. Archer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0803244231

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World History of Warfare by Christon I. Archer Pdf

This book provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive coverage of warfare across times and cultures. Its main strengths are its ability to provide context for each period discussed, comparison between developments in Europe, Asia, and the colonized world, and critical and up-to-date bibliographies that allow the reader to pursue subjects in greater depth. - Jacket flap.

Author : Geoffrey Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107181595

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The Cambridge History of Warfare by Geoffrey Parker Pdf

The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare, from its origins in classical Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the early modern period, down to the wars of the twenty-first century in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.

Author : John Andreas Olsen
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597976381

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A History of Air Warfare by John Andreas Olsen Pdf

This one-volume anthology provides a comprehensive analysis of the role that air power has played in military conflicts over the past century. Comprising sixteen essays penned by a global cadre of leading military experts, A History of Air Warfare chronologically examines the utility of air power from the First World War to the second Lebanon war, campaign by campaign. Each essay lays out the objectives, events, and key players of the conflict in question, reviews the role of air power in the strategic and operational contexts, and explores the interplay between the political framework and mil.

Author : Adrian Goldsworthy
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541699229

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Roman Warfare by Adrian Goldsworthy Pdf

From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a concise and comprehensive history of the fighting forces that created the Roman Empire Roman warfare was relentless in its pursuit of victory. A ruthless approach to combat played a major part in Rome's history, creating an empire that eventually included much of Europe, the Near East and North Africa. What distinguished the Roman army from its opponents was the uncompromising and total destruction of its enemies. Yet this ferocity was combined with a genius for absorbing conquered peoples, creating one of the most enduring empires ever known. In Roman Warfare, celebrated historian Adrian Goldsworthy traces the history of Roman warfare from 753 BC, the traditional date of the founding of Rome by Romulus, to the eventual decline and fall of Roman Empire and attempts to recover Rome and Italy from the "barbarians" in the sixth century AD. It is the indispensable history of the most professional fighting force in ancient history, an army that created an Empire and changed the world.

Author : Bernard Law Montgomery Montgomery of Alamein (Viscount)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : 1840222239

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A Concise History of Warfare by Bernard Law Montgomery Montgomery of Alamein (Viscount) Pdf

This text is the fruit of a lifetime spent in the study and tactics of war by the author, Lord Montgomery. He takes account of the human factor in war and permeates the text with his particular and well-remembered idiosyncrasies.

Author : Maurice Keen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191542527

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Medieval Warfare : A History by Maurice Keen Pdf

This richly illustrated book explores over seven hundred years of European warfare, from the time of Charlemagne to the end of the middle ages (c.1500). The period covered has a distinctive character in military history. It was an age when organization for war was integral to social structure, when the secular aristocrat was by necessity also a warrior, and whose culture was profoundly influenced by martial ideas. Twelve scholars, experts in their own fields, have contributed to this finely illustrated book. It is divided into two parts. Part I seeks to explore the experience of war viewed chronologically with separate chapters on, for instance, the Viking age, on the wars and expansion of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, on the Crusades and on the great Hundred Years War between England and France. The chapters in Part II trace thematically the principal developments in the art of warfare; in fortification and siege craft; in the role of armoured cavalrymen; in the employment of mercenary forces; the advent of gunpowder artillery; and of new skills in navigation and shipbuilding. In both parts of the book, the overall aim has been to offer the general reader an impression, not just of the where and the when of great confrontations, but above all of the social experience of warfare in the middle ages, and of the impact of its demands on human resources and human endurance.

Author : Timothy Newark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : 0500287996

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The Worldwide History of Warfare by Timothy Newark Pdf

The Worldwide History of Warfare combines historical engravings, diagrams and artwork with an engaging modern text to create a visual study of humankinds extraordinary capacity for ingenuity in inventing new ways to wage war. The history of military hardware is interjected with fascinating diagrams of tactics and famous battles, which alongside an extensive glossary of terms creates a complete grammar for the school of war. Navigational features include tabs with detailed cross-references and timelines of key battles and inventions, which aid the reader in exploring the complex battleground of the history of warfare from ancient times through to the American Civil War.

Author : Richard Connaughton
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472107695

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A Brief History of Modern Warfare by Richard Connaughton Pdf

Since Vietnam, both the way we fight and our reasons for going to war have become much more complex. The importance of a conflict is determined not by its size or by the numbers of combatants involved but by its ripple effects and its influence upon future events. In a series of thrilling recreations of eight of the most significant encounters of the last three decades, military historian Richard Connaughton presents a fascinating insight into modern warfare, including interviews with some of the major figures. The conflicts include Goose Green in the Falklands, the invasion of Grenada, Operation Desert Storm - the first Iraq War, Operations in Mogadishu as immortalized in the book and film Blackhawk Down, the Siege of Gorazde and Operation Barras in Sierra Leone, as well as more recent events at Fallujah, Iraq, and in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Richard Connaughton has interviewed most of the major figures involved in each of the conflicts and offers powerful insights into why battles either work or don't. This book will tell you what warfare means in the contemporary world and how it can affect tomorrow.

Author : Professor Jeremy Black,Jeremy Black
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000948929

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European Warfare, 1660-1815 by Professor Jeremy Black,Jeremy Black Pdf

This is a history of warfare, wars and the armed forces of Europe from the military revolution of the mid-17th century to the Napoleonic wars.; This book is intended for broad-based undergrad courses on 18th century Europe/Britain and the Ancien Regime. 2nd and 3rd year thematic courses on warfare in the modern period, and students of war studies.

Author : John Keegan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307274939

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The American Civil War by John Keegan Pdf

The greatest military historian of our time gives a peerless account of America’s most bloody, wrenching, and eternally fascinating war. In this magesterial history and national bestseller, John Keegan shares his original and perceptive insights into the psychology, ideology, demographics, and economics of the American Civil War. Illuminated by Keegan’s knowledge of military history he provides a fascinating look at how command and the slow evolution of its strategic logic influenced the course of the war. Above all, The American Civil War gives an intriguing account of how the scope of the conflict combined with American geography to present a uniquely complex and challenging battle space. Irresistibly written and incisive in its analysis, this is an indispensable account of America’s greatest conflict.

Author : Michael Murrin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0226554031

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History and Warfare in Renaissance Epic by Michael Murrin Pdf

Michael Murrin here offers the first analysis to bring an understanding of both the history of literature and the history of warfare to the study of the epic.

Author : Bernard Law Montgomery Montgomery of Alamein (Viscount)
Publisher : William Morrow & Company
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0688016456

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A History of Warfare by Bernard Law Montgomery Montgomery of Alamein (Viscount) Pdf

A chronological illustrated history of warfare from the Ancient Greeks through World War II with chapters on military thinking and the ethics of war

Author : Łukasz Kamieński
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190263478

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Shooting Up by Łukasz Kamieński Pdf

Pharmacologically enhanced militaries -- Alcohol -- From pre-modern times to the end of the Second World War -- Pre-modern times: opium, hashish, mushrooms and coca -- Napoleon in Egypt and the adventures of Europeans with hashish -- The Opium Wars -- The American Civil War, opium, morphine and the "soldiers' disease"--The colonial wars and the terrifying "barbarians"--coca to cocaine: the First World War -- The Second World War -- The Cold War -- From the Korean War to the war over mind control -- In search of wonderful new techniques and weapons -- Vietnam: the first true pharmacological war -- The Red Army in Afghanistan and the problem of drug addiction -- Towards the present -- Contemporary irregular armies empowered by drugs -- Intoxicated child soldiers -- Drugs in the contemporary American Armed Forces -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: war as a drug