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John Keegan | Histoire | Vintage Books Canada | Date de parution: 1994 | ISBN-13: 9780394280639 | Couverture: Souple | Anglais
"John 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
In this immensely gripping book, John Keegan probes the riddle of war, and analyzes centuries of conflict-in societies from the Amazon to the Balkans, waged by nomadic horsemen, peasant guerrillas, chivalrous samurai and superbly disciplined regiments - unveiling the deepest motives behind humanity's penchant for mass bloodshed. On Easter Island, for example, rival factions exterminated one another in a ceaseless competition for the egg of the sooty tern. The Aztecs seem to have fought for nothing more than the captives that they slaughtered by the thousands. And what policy could possibly have informed the Gulf War, in which the United States and its allies destroyed the army of Saddaam Hussein, only to leave Saddaam himself securely in power?
A History of Warfare is a masterpiece, irresistible in its style and terrifying in its implications.
"Must reading for ... anyone concerned about the future and the inherent nature of the human species."
-The Ottawa Sun
"An intellectual tour de force. It is impossible to convey the awesome sweep, breadth and depth of this consistently stimulating and enlightening book."
-Washington Post Book World
