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    <body><![CDATA[<strong>***Please VOTE***</strong><br/>Wow.  Do not go head-to-head with this erudite military historian.<br/><br/>Sweeping in its range--from 6000 BC fertile crescent to Cold War mutually assured destruction; inclusive in its coverage--from the Manchu in North Korea to the Mamelukes in Egypt to the Yanomamo in B...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65156235">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I went through this book right after finishing Martin Van Creveld. The Transformation of Warfare. The former, which I honestly liked better, was more of a cultural examinaton of war while Keedan's tome focused on anthropology. Keegan makes an attempt to find the biological underpinnings of man's des...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77057944">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting account of warfare.  The roles it has historically played.  How various cultures deal with and wage war.  And mostly the build up to World War I and how the world changed with the mechanized military.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The incomparable John Keegan takes on war, the universe, and everything.<br/><br/>Starting with the premise that all civilizations owe their origins to warmaking, Keegan probes the meanings, motivations, and methods underlying war in different societies over the course of more than two thousand ye...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/741869">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably the best ever compilations and analysis of evolution of military tactics.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[John Keegan shows that the history of warefare is, in many ways, the history of humanity.  I came away with a much better sense of why political borders of the world exist as they do and why national defense carries so much weight as a political priority.<br/><br/>The first chapter dissects Clausw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15798372">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As in other books of his that I've read, Keegan divides history into pieces and tells detailed stories within each piece to provide a sense of the whole. Nice as a capstone work of one of the great military historians, and the book succeeds in covering a huge topic in limited space.<br/><br/>Keega...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5732621">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[(+) Keegan was born in mid-twentieth century England? Well, I would buy it if he said he is an Immortal in &quot;Highlander&quot; movie<br/>The precisions and details of his explanations on stages in which mankind involved in warfare are of advanced level. <br/>This book proves to be a useful refe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4842602">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read after hearing Margaret Atwood talk about it in a lecture.  It starts with the early theories about why societies started to attack each other.  For resources, things haven't changed much.  We kill for farmland, or better, for the harvest of the farmland, like we kill now for oil.  Really depr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17387984">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For anyone who loves history this is a thrilling book and a brilliant essay on the moulding impact of warfare on the development of civilisation. It's also a passionate argument for the obsolescence of war as a political strategy. And, its not too long!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very interesting read, but criticized by many other war scholars, this book is meant as a polemic againt Clauswitz.  If you don't know who Clauswitz is, you should before you have any opinions about war.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Along with 'The Great Wave' and 'Guns, Germs and Steel' and the various works of Joseph Campbell, this book taught me about the world as it used to be and as it came to us today. <br/> ]]></body>
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