War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today (First Edition)

Boot, Max

ISBN 10: 1592402224 / ISBN 13: 9781592402229

Published by Gotham, New York, 2006

About this Item

New York, Gotham, 2006. First edition. First printing (with full number line including 1). Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($35.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free.

Seller Inventory # Ferry-Non-Fiction

Bibliographic Details

• Title: War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today (First Edition)
• Publisher: Gotham, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592402224
• ISBN 13: 9781592402229
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

An analysis of the pivotal role of technology in modern warfare focuses on four historical periods that shaped the rise and fall of empires, in a narrative account that covers such topics as gunpowder, the Industrial Revolution, and stealth aircraft. First serial, American Heritage.

About the Author

Max Boot is the author of the award-winning The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power, which was selected as a 2002 Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. A senior fellow in national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a weekly foreign-affairs columnist for the Los Angeles Times, he lectures regularly at numerous military schools and advises the Department of Defense on transformation issues.