War and Our World [1st Vintage books ed] 9780307779991, 0307779998, 9781299025370, 1299025374

John Keegan, widely considered the greatest military historian of our time and the author of acclaimed volumes on ancien

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English Pages 69 pages Year 2011;2001

War and Our World [1st Vintage books ed]
9780307779991, 0307779998, 9781299025370, 1299025374

Table of contents :
War and our world --
The origins of war --
War and the state --
War and the individual --
Can there be an end to war?

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