War and the Liberal Conscience: The George Trevelyan Lectures in the University of Cambridge, 1977 (Oxford Paperbacks) - Softcover

Howard, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019285111X ISBN 13: 9780192851116

Publisher: OXFORD PAPERBACKS, 1981

Synopsis

Spine faded, bookseller's marks. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Howard OM, CH, CBE, MC was formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War and Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford.

Review

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the possibility of more such operations in future, make Michael Howard's book of the greatest importance. It should be read not only by analysts, but by every concerned Western citizen.

(Anatol Lieven, author of Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World)

This is a book that everyone should read. It is a short, elegant masterpiece, where every chapter has the cliffhanger ending of peace being declared, only to be followed by a new phase of war, more awful than that which had gone before.

(James Gow, professor of international peace and security, King's College London)

Lucid, witty, and trenchant... these anti-war theories could hardly be more interestingly presented.

(Royal United Services Institute Journal)

So well written that it could be read as a novel-except few novels are so interesting. To take one strand of history and unravel it in this way is not only a service to historians but to the ordinary bus-riding liberal anxious to clarify his own thought.

(Books and Bookmen)

Edition details

• Publisher: OXFORD PAPERBACKS
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019285111X
• ISBN 13: 9780192851116
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144