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“Why is this the case? Why has the West returned again and again to the twin visions of an end to war and apocalyptic war? I don’t pretend to be offering an answer to this entire, vast question. But in this book, I explore how and why the pattern began.”
David A. Bell, The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
“men desire harmony, but nature knows better what is good for the species: it desires strife.”
David A. Bell, The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It

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