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Alfred S. Bradford and
Phiroze Vasunia (foreword by)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Oxford Univ Pr
Publication date
March 1, 2015
Pages
176
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780195380910
ISBN-10
0195380916
Dimensions
0.50 by 5.25 by 8.25 in.
Weight
0.55 lbs.
Original list price
$24.95
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: By one estimate, humans have fought wars in ninety-four out of every hundred years for the past 5,000. Despite radical differences in the prosecution of warfare between ancient and modern societies, there remains a linear connection to the ways that Greco-Roman cultures thought about war--its conduct, aims, tactics, and ethics. This is epitomized most obviously in the Greek and Latin derivatives that dot our language of war--"army,"military, "strategy." Combining astute analyses of the logistics of conflict with the ethics of war, Alfred Bradford offers fascinating parallels between warfare in ancient and contemporary societies. After a brief prelude that discusses the Greeks' first descriptions of battle in the Iliad, Bradford outlines the changes in warfare from the earliest records through the fall of the Roman Empire to contemporary wars of counterterrorism. The second half of the book turns to discuss more holistically the study of war, the writing of war, and images of war, drawing on a diverse range of texts and images. Fundamentally, Bradford shows that despite massive differences in weaponry and firepower, the basic principles of warfare have remained unchanged over thousands of years, and even as we move further from antiquity, war in the modern age is persistently illuminated by our Greek and Roman forbearers.
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from Oxford Univ Pr (March 1, 2015)
9780195380903 | details & prices | 176 pages | 5.50 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.82 lbs | List price $99.00
Paperback
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from Oxford Univ Pr (March 1, 2015)
9780195380910 | details & prices | 176 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $24.95
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