by John Keegan · Pimlico · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780712698504
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«A History of Warfare» is John Keegan's military history essay, published by Pimlico in paperback (448 pages, in English).
John Keegan analyses war as a cultural phenomenon and traces its evolution from primitive societies to the conflicts of the twentieth century. He examines how tactics, technology, politics and geography shape ways of fighting, and argues that each civilisation develops a style of warfare linked to its culture.
The work won the Duff Cooper Prize. John Keegan was a lecturer in military history at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and defence editor of the Daily Telegraph.
For readers interested in military history, strategy and a global view of war's influence on civilisation.
Sir John Desmond Patrick Keegan was an English military historian, lecturer, author and journalist. He wrote many published works on the nature of combat between prehistory and the 21st century, covering land, air, maritime, intelligence warfare and the psychology of battle.
