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Land of War: A History of European Warfare from Achilles to Putin

English

By (author): William Nester

War in Europe began with the first human migrants. Rival bands fought for thousands of years before the Greeks and Romans began writing about their military history, first as legendfor instance, the hero Achilles battling the Trojansand then as fact. War developed from sticks and stones to bronze, iron, and steel, including armor and edged weapons. Then came gunpowder, guns, and cannons, which eventually replaced edged weapons. Finally, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, technology exploded: railroads, steamships, telegraphs, machine guns, automobiles, airplanes, and tanks enabled European states to muster, equip, arm, transport, and command more men than ever before, with more firepower than ever before. In the past seventy-five years, atomic weapons changed the military landscape of Europeas have the internet and cyber warfare.

In this colorful new telling of European warfareand indeed European history through the continents all too numerous wars and conflictsWilliam Nester describes millennia of armed conflict. He covers the greatest hits of military history both ancient and current: Thermopylae, the Peloponnesian War, the wars of the Roman Empire across the continent, the Battle of Hastings, the Crusades, Agincourt, Waterloo, Napoleon and Wellington, the Somme, the Spanish Civil War, Stalingrad and Normandy, Churchill, Hitler, and Stalin, Bosnia, and up through Putins attempts to redraw the map of Europe. Nester highlights how warfare has been deeply entwined with European statesmanship and undergirds modern institutions such as NATO and the European Union. Europes sense of itself is bound up in its military history.

Land of War is an epic odyssey from Europes mythic origins through its latest violent conflicts.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 853g
  • Dimensions: 163 x 231mm
  • Publication Date: 01 May 2023
  • Publisher: Stackpole Books
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780811772488

About William Nester

William Nester is a professor at St. Johns University in Queens New York. He has written more than two dozen books on global politics/power and the history of warfare including books about Europes colonial wars in North America Napoleon Lincoln Theodore Roosevelt Charles De Gaulle and Winston Churchill. His book George Rogers Clark: I Glory in War received a 2013 Distinguished Writing Award from the Army Historical Foundation; bestselling author Douglas Brinkley praised it as an important contribution to early U.S. history.

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