War in European History
1976
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This reissue of Howard's classic text includes a short new afterword by the author. "Wars have often determined the character of society. Society in exchange has determined the character of wars. This is the theme of Michael Howard's stimulating book. It is written with all his usual skill and in its small compass is perhaps the most original book he has written. Though he surveys a thousand years of history, he does so without sinking in a slough of facts and draws a broad outline of developments which will delight the general reader."—A.J.P. Taylor, Observer
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Author
Michael Eliot Howard
Author · 13 books
Sir Michael Eliot Howard, OM, CH, CBE, MC, FBA, FRHistS was a British military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University, and founder of the Department of War Studies, King's College London. In 1958, he co-founded the International Institute for Strategic Studies together with British Labour MP Denis Healey and Oxford University academic Alastair Francis Buchan.
