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GWYNNE DYER served in the Canadian, British, and American navies. He earned a Ph.D. in military history from the University of London, and was a senior lecturer in war studies at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. The original version of this book, published in 1985, won a Columbia University School of Journalism Award. A seven-part television series based upon War was broadcast in forty-five countries in the mid-1980s; one of the episodes was nominated for an Academy Award. Dyer writes a twice-weekly newspaper column on international affairs and security policy that is published by 175 newspapers worldwide, many in the U. S. He lives in London with his wife and children.
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A chronicle of organized human aggression gets a timely update in this new edition of a seminal book originally published 20 years ago. As Dyer covers the history of human warfare-from primitive tribal skirmishes and the "total war" of WWI and II to the imbroglios of the past 30 years (including the current one in Iraq)-a sense of cyclical inexorability begins to creep in, of history repeating itself again and again. One is struck by the notion that the only changes in the historical narrative of humans at war are new strategies necessitated by new, and exponentially more deadly, technologies. Implicit in Dyer's argument is the idea that, in war, humans have become increasingly subjugated to the increasingly awesome power of their machines, so that the nuclear stalemate of the Cold War becomes a logical extension of the deadlock of WWI trench warfare. Dyer is an accomplished military historian who bolsters his extensive knowledge with a rhetorical style that is at once invisible and entirely convincing. Structurally, the book accordions in and out from the psychology of individual soldiers, to the workings of whole armies, to broader historical movements and how they change (and stay the same) through time. It is a powerful effect, and one that ultimately makes this book at once a valuable historical treatise and a fervent and compelling call toward pacifism.
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- PublisherStoddart
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0773720685
- ISBN 13 9780773720688
- BindingPaperback
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Book Description Cloth. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Printing, New Edition. Gwynne Dyer launches his brilliant discussion of the history and nature of war. He traces the growth of organized warfare through history, showing conclusively that the basic tenet has remained unchanged -- war is an act of mass violence applied against an enemy so that he will do what you want him to do. The only real change has been technological, permitting us to make war on a mass scale. a NEW edition of the 1985 original. x, 484 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. A 'Mint' copy, very clean, bright and fresh. Unmarked in an unclipped dustjacket. Weight, 966g. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Seller Inventory # 31744
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. Photographs (illustrator). SIGNED and inscribed to the title page by Mr. Dyer. Very gently read, unclipped and not remaindered. Interior is crisp, clean and solid. Bright silver titles to spine, blue linen boards. Corners are sharp and square. Very faint and small moisture mark to foot of spine with corresponding mark to the interior of the dustjacket. Handful of small glue spots to the bottom edge of the front board. Unclipped dustjacket is lightly bumped to extremities, two small "dents" and a light crease to the front panel with minor shelfwear to show. Dustjacket now protected in brodart jacket. From the PBS National Television Series. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 002157
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