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Author : Ian Drury,HarperCollins Publishers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0007624263
Author : Leopold Stennett Amery,Erskine Childers,Basil Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : South Africa
ISBN : PRNC:32101073339242
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : OCLC:1027363880
Author : Margaret MacMillan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735238039
NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Lionel Gelber Prize Thoughtful and brilliant insights into the very nature of war--from the ancient Greeks to modern times--from world-renowned historian Margaret MacMillan. War--its imprint in our lives and our memories--is all around us, from the metaphors we use to the names on our maps. As books, movies, and television series show, we are drawn to the history and depiction of war. Yet we nevertheless like to think of war as an aberration, as the breakdown of the normal state of peace. This is comforting but wrong. War is woven into the fabric of human civilization. In this sweeping new book, international bestselling author and historian Margaret MacMillan analyzes the tangled history of war and society and our complicated feelings towards it and towards those who fight. It explores the ways in which changes in society have affected the nature of war and how in turn wars have changed the societies that fight them, including the ways in which women have been both participants in and the objects of war. MacMillan's new book contains many revelations, such as war has often been good for science and innovation and in the 20th century it did much for the position of women in many societies. But throughout, it forces the reader to reflect on the ways in which war is so intertwined with society, and the myriad reasons we fight.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001953277
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : STANFORD:36105071851286
Author : Times Newspapers Limited
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : LCCN:16005313
Author : Times (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : OCLC:280433347
Author : Gwynne Dyer
Publisher : Cormorant Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770866829
War has changed, but we have not. From our hunter-gatherer ancestors to the rival nuclear powers of today, whenever resources have been contested, we’ve gone to battle. Acclaimed historian Gwynne Dyer illuminates our many martial clashes in this brisk account, tracing warfare from prehistory to the world’s first cities — and on to the thousand-year “classical age” of combat, which ended when the firearm changed everything. He examines the brief interlude of “limited war” before eighteenth-century revolution ushered in “total war”— and how the devastation was halted by the nuclear shock of Hiroshima. Then came the Cold War and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which punctured the longest stretch of peace between major powers since World War II. For all our advanced technology and hyperconnected global society, we find ourselves once again on the brink as climate change heightens competition for resources and superpowers stand ready with atomic bombs, drones, and futuristic “autonomous” weapons in development. Throughout, Dyer delves into anthropology, psychology, and other relevant fields to unmask the drivers of conflict. The Shortest History of War is for anyone who wants to understand the role of war in the human story — and how we can prevent it from defining our future.
Author : Peter Andreas
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780190463014
Introduction: How drugs made war and war made drugs -- Drunk on the front -- Where there's smoke there's war -- Caffeinated conflict -- Opium, empire, and Geopolitics -- Speed warfare -- Cocaine wars -- Conclusion: The drugged battlefields of the 21st century .
Author : Times
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:867948486
Author : Chris Hedges
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416583141
Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S. military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of combat to speak for itself. Hedges poses dozens of questions that young soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by quoting from medical and psychological studies. • What are my chances of being wounded or killed if we go to war? • What does it feel like to get shot? • What do artillery shells do to you? • What is the most painful way to get wounded? • Will I be afraid? • What could happen to me in a nuclear attack? • What does it feel like to kill someone? • Can I withstand torture? • What are the long-term consequences of combat stress? • What will happen to my body after I die? This profound and devastating portrayal of the horrors to which we subject our armed forces stands as a ringing indictment of the glorification of war and the concealment of its barbarity.
Author : Times
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : OCLC:1099742554
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : UCD:31175018586134
Author : R. J. Overy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199390717
Their very names--Gettysburg, Waterloo, Stalingrad--evoke images of great triumph and equally great suffering, moments when history seemed to hang in the balance. Considered in relation to each other, such battles--and others of less immediate renown--offer insight into the changing nature of armed combat, advances in technology, shifts in strategy and thought, as well as altered geopolitical landscapes. The most significant military engagements in history define the very nature of war. In his newest book, Richard Overy plumbs over 3,000 years of history, from the Fall of Troy in 1200 BC to the Fall of Baghdad in 2003, to locate the 100 battles that he believes the most momentous. Arranged by themes such as leadership, innovation, deception, and courage under fire, Overy presents engaging essays on each battle that together provide a rich picture of how combat has changed through the ages, as well as highlighting what has remained consistent despite advances in technology. The battles covered here offer a wide geographic sweep, from ancient Greece to China, Constantinople to Moscow, North to South America, providing a picture of the dominant empires across time and context for comparison between various military cultures. From familiar engagements like Thermopylae (480 BC), Verdun (1916), and the Tet Offensive (1968) to lesser-studied battles such as Zama (202 BC), Arsuf (1191), and Navarino Bay (1827), Overy presents the key actors, choices, and contingencies, focusing on those details--sometimes overlooked--that decided the battle. The American victory at the Battle of Midway, for example, was determined by only ten bombs. It was, as Wellington said of Waterloo, a "near run thing." Rather than focusing on the question of victory or defeat, Overy examines what an engagement can tell us on a larger level about the history of warfare itself. New weapons and tactics can have a sudden impact on the outcome of a battle--but so too can leadership, or the effects of a clever deception, or raw courage. Overy offers a deft and visually captivating look at the engagements that have shaped the course of human history, and changed the face of warfare.
