Review of Warfare in the Western World: Military Operations Since 1871,9780669209402

Compare prices and save on cheap textbooks at CheapestTextbooks.com

Add us to your favorites! | Selling Textbooks? | Link to our site

Selected Product:

Warfare in the Western World: Military Operations Since 1871

Hardcover
Edition: 1
Author: Warfare in the Western World: Military Operations Since 1871
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Release Date: 1995-01-02
ISBN-10: 0669209406
ISBN-13: 9780669209402
List Price: ~~$106.95~~
Average Customer Rating:

Similar Products

Makers of Modern Strategy from Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age
ISBN-10: 0691027641
ISBN-13: 9780691027647
List Price:~~$39.95~~

The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme
ISBN-10: 0140048979
ISBN-13: 9780140048971
List Price:~~$16.00~~

War in European History
ISBN-10: 0192802089
ISBN-13: 9780192802088
List Price:~~$19.95~~

The Art of War in Western World
ISBN-10: 0252069668
ISBN-13: 9780252069666
List Price:~~$29.95~~

The Oxford History of Modern War
ISBN-10: 0192806459
ISBN-13: 9780192806451
List Price:~~$24.95~~

Our Review: To use our price comparison to get the cheapest price, please click on the "Find the Cheapest Price" button located above for Warfare in the Western World: Military Operations Since 1871 by Warfare in the Western World: Military Operations Since 1871 (ISBN-10: 0669209406, ISBN-13: 9780669209402).

At this time we have not yet written a review for Warfare in the Western World: Military Operations Since 1871 by Warfare in the Western World: Military Operations Since 1871 (ISBN-10: 0669209406, ISBN-13: 9780669209402). Please continue to keep checking back to this page as we are constantly adding reviews.

Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com

Summary:
Authoritative and concise, Warfare in the Western World concentrates on selected campaigns and battles, showing how political and military leaders in the West have used armies to wage war effectively over the last four centuries. The text moves through the centuries, discussing how operational developments and technological improvements eventually led to the concept of total war, first approached in the American Civil War and culminating in the twentieth century's two world wars.

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Rating:

Kinda lame...

Customer Rating:

Yeah I found this book to be really lacking in the whole "cool" category (and "sweet" category while I'm at it). I learn more from the history channel and old John Wayne videos. You should only buy this book if you go to West Point and they just closed book issue and your Professor is getting all up in your grill about buying one. If you buy this book for any of the following reasons...flog yourself:
1) You think you will enjoy it
2) To beef up your "professional library"
3) Cause your one of those "militant type" people that reads everything in the world about the Military, wear BDU pants tucked into your combat boots out in public, you have a "Semper Fi" bumpersticker on your car, and sport an extreme high and tight...yet your way too scared to actually join the military other than the Seacadets or Boy Scouts.
4) Any other brutally terrible reason that has not been previously stated.

(if you chose option three than feel free flog yourself (in the face) twice)

Thanks, and happy shopping

according to a military history student..

Customer Rating:

This book (and its second volume: Military Operations since 1871) are both required texts for my Military History class. Most students claim to only rapidly skim required reading for classes, but I've managed to read everything so far (if that tells you anything). As far as material is concerned, this text is both wide-ranging and thourough, describing the invention and development of military techniques as well as discussing the society and government of the time, and how all these factors influence eachother. Highlighted areas include the Thirty Years War and the development of limited war, and the progression though the Napoleonic Wars to almost complete total war during the War Between the States. This book does an excellent job in tying all these early battles together and showing the overall development of warfare. However, if you are interested in nitty-gritty facts on Waterloo or Gettysburg, find a book specific to that battle instead of the sweeping panoramic view this book provides.

Excellent Survey of Western "Military Art"

Customer Rating:

This book is the result of the collaboration of a number of the best military historians in the US today, including Mark Grimsley, George Herring, John Lynn, and many others, skilfully tied together by the editors (who are also major contributors), Professor Ira Gruber of Rice University and Colonel Robert A. Doughty of West Point. The result is an outstanding survey of modern Western military history designed for undergraduate history courses, but easily accessible to the general reader as well. The prose is exceptionally clear and the ideas lucidly presented. These two volumes are definitely focussed on the operational level of the "military art" (i.e. on the planning and conduct of campaigns), with some treatment also of strategy, tactics, and technology, but very litte material on "war and society" subjects (i.e. how wars and military developments have affected society and vice-versa). This makes it especially useful for ROTC military history classes, but it is also a very good introduction to the "sharp end" of military history for scholars or students whose main interests lie in the effects of war, rather than its conduct.

Excellent survey	Customer Rating:
For a clearly written, concise, reliable summary of Western military history with an operational-level focus, this is the book to buy. I use it to teach military history, and my students (cadets) rate it highly.