A history of warfare
Beginning with the premise that all civilizations owe their origins to warmaking, Keegan probes the meanings, motivations, and methods underlying war in different cultures over the course of more than two thousand years
xvi, 432 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780679730828, 0679730826
863602128
Originally published in hard cover in Great Britain by Hutchinson, London, in 1993. originally published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1993