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Can I read A History of Warfare on EtoBox?
A History of Warfare by Keegan, John is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is A History of Warfare about?
A look at the role of warfare in human civilization probes the meaning, motivations, and methods underlying war, discusses the world's great warrior cultures, and follows the progress of human aggression. Reprint. 60,000 first printing. 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 . . . AHistory of Warfareis perhaps the most remarkable study of warfare that has yet been written."--The New York Times Book Review.
Who reads A History of Warfare?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Keegan, John
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780679730828
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Military, Fiction
- Rating
- 4.02 / 5 (2,406 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- A History of Warfare (1994)
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- A History of Warfare (1993)
- Historia de la guerra (Noema) (2014)
- A History of Warfare (2000)
- History of Warfare, A (1994)
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