The acclaimed author of The Face of Battle examines centures of conflict in a variety of diverse societies and cultures. "Keegan is at once the most readable and the most original of living military historians . . . A History of Warfare is perhaps the most remarkable study of warfare that has yet been written."--The New York Times Book Review.
Interlude: Limitations on Warmaking
SOME PRIMITIVE PEOPLES AND THEIR WARFARE
THE HORSE PEOPLES OF THE STEPPE
THE HORSE PEOPLES’ HORIZON, 453–1258
THE DECLINE OF THE HORSE PEOPLES
THE GREEKS AND AMPHIBIOUS STRATEGY
MACEDON AND THE CULMINATION OF PHALANX WARFARE
ROME: MOTHER HOUSE OF MODERN ARMIES
EUROPE AFTER ROME: A CONTINENT WITHOUT ARMIES
Interlude: Logistics and Supply
GUNPOWDER BATTLES IN THE EXPERIMENTAL AGE
POLITICAL REVOLUTION AND MILITARY CHANGE
FIREPOWER AND THE CULTURE OF UNIVERSAL SERVICE