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Nester William - Land Of War A History Of European Warfare From Achilles To Putin - Hardcover
Nester William - Land Of War A History Of European Warfare From Achilles To Putin - Hardcover
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Description: 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 legend for instance the hero Achilles battling the Trojans and 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 Europe as have the internet and cyber warfare. In this colorful new telling of European warfare and indeed European history through the continent's all too numerous wars and conflicts William 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 Putin's 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. Europe's sense of itself is bound up in its military history. Land of War is an epic odyssey from Europe's mythic origins through its latest violent conflicts.
Title: Land Of War A History Of European Warfare From Achilles To Putin
Author(s): Nester William
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Barcode: 9780811772488
Pages: 520 Pages
Publication Date: 5/1/2023
Category: Military History
Description: 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 legend for instance the hero Achilles battling the Trojans and 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 Europe as have the internet and cyber warfare. In this colorful new telling of European warfare and indeed European history through the continent's all too numerous wars and conflicts William 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 Putin's 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. Europe's sense of itself is bound up in its military history. Land of War is an epic odyssey from Europe's mythic origins through its latest violent conflicts.
Title: Land Of War A History Of European Warfare From Achilles To Putin
Author(s): Nester William
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Barcode: 9780811772488
Pages: 520 Pages
Publication Date: 5/1/2023
Category: Military History
