An attempt to write a global history of warfare in the modern era. Jeremy Black, here presents a wide-ranging account of the nature, purpose and experience of w

The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Globalizing, booming economies married to techno

This text provides an innovative global military history that joins three periods—World War I, the interwar years, and World War II. Jeremy Black offers a com

"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's

At the close of the Civil War, it was clear that the military conflict that began in South Carolina and was fought largely east of the Mississippi River had cha