The Art of War: War and Military Thought (Cassell History of Warfare S.)

by Martin Van Creveld (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $3.42

  Part of a unique venture: a twenty-four volume series that captures the entire history of warfare, written by leading authorities. Series Editor John Keegan, the foremost military historian of our time. Fully illustrated throughout and incorporating state-of-the-art computer generated maps and graphics that bring the battlefield to life.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $10.97

  This unique book is the only one to cover the history of military thought in its entirety. Starting with the ancient Chinese writers, and in particular Sun Tzu, Martin Van Creveld takes the reader through Greece, Rome, Byzantium and the Middle Ages before entering the second great age of military thinkers and strategists with moderns like Frederick the Great in the eighteenth century and the genius of Clausewitz on land warfare and Mahan on naval strategy in the nineteenth century. Final chapters take us to the era of modern armoured, air and nuclear warfare, ending with glimpses of what future war might hold in store for us.