War Since 1900

by Jeremy Black (Editor & Contributor), Michael S. Neiberg (Contributor), Michael Rose (Contributor)

War has been the great catalyst of change in the last century, bringingdown empires, triggering revolutions, and transforming society. Here, distinguished military historians from the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, and France bring their collective knowledge and experienceto bear on the cataclysmic events that have shaped the modern world.The contributors fully convey and analyze the horror and dramaof two world wars, the petty conflicts and civil wars of the 1920s and1930s, the Cold War, wars of decolonization, and Middle Eastern warsafter 1945. Their unique viewpoints add a fresh perspective: a Germanscholar and special adviser to the German Ministry of Defense ontwentieth-century naval warfare; a French historian on France's warsin Indochina and Algeria; and a retired British general on the Balkan, Iraq, and Afghan conflicts of the past two decades.There are extensive lists of key events plus special features on technologicalinnovations, from the tank to the nuclear bomb, from the submarineto the unmanned drone, and the illustrations include hundreds of photographsas well as specially commissioned maps and battle reconstructions.

Genres: History

288 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Jeremy Black is an English historian, who was formerly a professor of history at the University of Exeter. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US.
Black is the author of over 180 books, principally but not exclusively on 18th-century British politics and international relations, and has been described by one commentator as "the most prolific historical scholar of our age". He has published on military and political history, including Warfare in the Western World, 1882–1975 (2001) and The World in the Twentieth Century (2002).

Reviews

[James Piper · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting overview of wars, as the title says, since 1900. For those war I wasn't familar, I found I didn't want to read more or wanted to read much more than the book offered. I suspose there's a use for this book, but don't expect to become a militarian historian from reading it.