Basic Books. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Basic Books ISBN 0786715383 9780786715381 [US]

Carroll & Graf, Date: 2005-04-10. Hardcover. Good. 2005. Carroll & Graf ISBN 0786715383 9780786715381 [US]

Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, Date: 2005. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 484 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. The dust jacket is in very good condition save a small closed tear on the base of the front foredge.. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Library stamps etc only on endpapers, half-title page.. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. A chronicle of organized human aggression gets a timely update in this new edition of a seminal book originally published in 1986. 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 ...

Carroll & Graf, April Date: 2005. Hardcover . Very Good. Very Good Hardcover with Very Good Dustjacket. Light shelfwear to DJ. Light shelfwear to covers. Pages clean and tight in binding. Pictures available upon request. A locally owned, independent book shop since 1984. 2005. Carroll & Graf ISBN 0786715383 9780786715381 [US]

ISBN10: 0786715383, ISBN13: 9780786715381, [publisher: Carroll & Graf, New York] Softcover New softcover book.
[Dayton, OH, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]
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