A History of Warfare

Note - Back cover and first couple pages cut and repaired

A new interpretation of warfare throughout history from the Stone Age to Saddam Hussein. In this brilliantly readable and controversial book Keegan presents not only a history of warfare but an analysis of world history, and the role that man's impulse to war has played in it. The book argues that far from being a continuation of politics by other means, war is the heart of human history and the main engine of change - political, economic, social and artistic - by which all societies have developed...