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A richly absorbing book... Overy is unquestionably one of our finest living historians - The Daily Telegraph

Why has warfare always been part of the human story?
From biology to belief, what explains the persistence of violent conflict?
What light can this shed on humanity's past and its future?

There can be few more important but also more contentious issues than attempting to understand the human propensity for conflict. Our history is inextricably tangled in wave after wave of inter-human fighting from as far back as we have records.

Repeatedly humans have foresworn war, have understood its appalling risks and have wished to create more pacific, productive societies. And yet almost inevitably circumstances emerge under which war once more seems inevitable or even desirable

How can we make sense of what Einstein called ''the dark places of human will and feeling''? Richard Overy draws on a lifetime''s study of conflict to write this

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A richly absorbing book... Overy is unquestionably one of our finest living historians - The Daily TelegraphWhy has warfare always... Read more

    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 6/27/2024
    ISBN13: 9780241567609, 978-0241567609
    ISBN10: 0241567602

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    A richly absorbing book... Overy is unquestionably one of our finest living historians - The Daily Telegraph

    Why has warfare always been part of the human story?
    From biology to belief, what explains the persistence of violent conflict?
    What light can this shed on humanity's past and its future?

    There can be few more important but also more contentious issues than attempting to understand the human propensity for conflict. Our history is inextricably tangled in wave after wave of inter-human fighting from as far back as we have records.

    Repeatedly humans have foresworn war, have understood its appalling risks and have wished to create more pacific, productive societies. And yet almost inevitably circumstances emerge under which war once more seems inevitable or even desirable

    How can we make sense of what Einstein called ''the dark places of human will and feeling''? Richard Overy draws on a lifetime''s study of conflict to write this

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