War Made New
Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today
$38.09
- Paperback
656 pages
- Release Date
16 August 2007
Summary
A monumental, groundbreaking work, now in paperback, that shows how technological and strategic revolutions have transformed the battlefield.
Combining gripping narrative history with wide-ranging analysis, War Made New focuses on four “revolutions” in military affairs and describes how inventions ranging from gunpowder to GPS-guided air strikes have remade the field of battle—and shaped the rise and fall of empires.
War Made New begins with the Gunpowder Rev…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781592403158 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1592403158 |
| Author: | Max Boot |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Gotham Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 16 August 2007 |
| Weight: | 686g |
| Dimensions: | 36mm x 156mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
Brilliantly crafted history.
?Brilliantly crafted history.?
?“The Wall Street Journal”
?Magisterial.?
?“The New York Times Book Review”
?This is a book for both the general reader and reading generals.?
?“New York Post”
aBrilliantly crafted history.a
a”The Wall Street Journal”
aMagisterial.a
a”The New York Times Book Review”
aThis is a book for both the general reader and reading generals.a
a”New York Post”
Brilliantly crafted history.
“The Wall Street Journal”
Magisterial.
“The New York Times Book Review”
This is a book for both the general reader and reading generals.
“New York Post”
Max Boot
Max Boot is the author of the award-winning The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power, which was selected as a 2002 Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor.
A senior fellow in national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a weekly foreign-affairs columnist for the Los Angeles Times, he lectures regularly at numerous military schools and advises the Department of Defense on transformation issues.
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