by Jeremy Black · Bloomsbury Continuum · tapa dura · ISBN 9781441157133
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«Avoiding Armageddon» is Jeremy Black's military history essay, published by Bloomsbury Continuum in hardback (256 pages, in English).
Jeremy Black connects the First and Second World Wars, from 1918 to 1940, and analyses how armies, governments and citizens absorbed the lessons of the Great War. He addresses symmetric and asymmetric warfare, innovation, technological change and ideology, with attention to the Far East and the role of the military in domestic politics.
The subtitle is «From the Great War to the Fall of France, 1918-40». It was first published in 2012.
Aimed at military history scholars and readers interested in the evolution of warfare in the twentieth century.
Sir John Jeremy Black, also known as J. J. Black, was a senior Royal Navy officer. He commanded the aircraft carrier HMS Invincible during the Falklands War, and later served as Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command from 1989 until his retirement in 1991.
