Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

ISBN-13: 9780008567989 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Andrew Roberts

Opis

A Military History of the Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine

Two leading authorities - a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time - collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945.

Recenzje

'How has warfare evolved in the eight decades since 1945? And what might it look like in the future? These are the questions posed by the authorial dream team of David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts: respectively a distinguished former US general and spy chief, and one of Britain's finest military historians. This brilliant history shows how the wars of the future may go. Elegantly written and persuasively argued, Conflict is a hugely important book that explains why wars are still being fought and lost, what we can learn from them, and how we can protect ourselves from malign actors in the future'
DAILY TELEGRAPH, FIVE-STAR REVIEW

'Timely, engaging and instructive, Conflict is the best one-volume study of conventional warfare in the nuclear age. It sets a new benchmark in understanding modern war'
WALL STREET JOURNAL

'The pairing of Roberts with Petraeus is an engaging choice... conclusions are not offered as a means of political score-settling. What gives these observations new resonance is that they're placed into the broader context of warfare's evolution and future. They spend little time imagining a world without war, or even a world with less war. Their book - like Clausewitz's canonical text - is a primer for today's strategists, brimming with lessons about leadership, counter-insurgency, and intelligence. It's a guide to effectively prepare for and win wars of the future, to achieve perpetual peace through perpetual strength'
NEW STATESMAN

'A major book that will enlighten the layman and guide the statesman or geopolitical student' DR. HENRY KISSINGER, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor; Nobel Prize laureate

O autorze

Andrew Roberts took a first in modern history from Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. He is a fellow of the Institute of Napoleonic Studies and has lectured on Napoleon in America, Canada and Britain. Along with Colonel John Hughes-Wilson of the Corps of Battlefield Guides, he conducts annual tours to Waterloo under the auspices of Tours with Experts.