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The Ultimate Experience: Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450-2000

By Yuval Noah Harari

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0230536921, 9780230536920, 9780230583887
LCC
U21.2 .H357 2008
Open Library ID
OL16383754M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2646004 bytes)
Pages
408\403
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

For millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more than a test: it became a secular revelation. This new understanding of war as revelation completely transformed Western war culture, revolutionizing politics, the personal experience of war, the status of common soldiers, and the tenets of military theory.

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