The art of war in the western world
Jones, Archer, 1926-1987
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This work is one of the best single-volume accounts of war written by one of America's most respected military historians. It is the product of more than 35 years of study and teaching of military history in various institutions of learning in the United States. Archer Jones traces history from about 2,500 years ago, when the Greeks and Macedonians first supplemented their spears with missiles (slings, arrows, and javelins) and carries it to our time, where missiles are the ultimate weapon. Yet, Jones demonstrates that military tactics have changed very little although weaponry may have increased a thousand-fold since the Spartans battled the Thebans in the fourth century B.C. In his thorough description of the Israeli-Egyptian War of 1973, for example, he shows how tactics and strategy sometimes paralleled those employed by Caesar at Ilerda and by the Germans in their 1940 offensive. The Art of War in the Western World is a book that is likely to stand for a generation as the standard work on how men conduct war. -- SAF Professional Reading Programme, 3rd edition, Dec 2003.
Main title:
The art of war in the western world / Archer Jones.
Author:
Imprint:
New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, c1987.
Collation:
xix, 740 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
ISBN:
0195062418 (pbk)
LC class:
U27 JON
Language:
English
BRN:
17586