The author maintains that modern attitudes toward total war were conceived during the Napoleonic era; and argues that all the elements of total war were evident

World War I was the first large-scale industrialized military conflict, and it led to the concept of total war. The essays in this volume analyze the experience

What is total war? Definitions abound, but one thing is certain—the concept of total war has come to be seen as a defining concept of the modern age. In The A

How far would you go for Rome? Carthage, 146 BC. This is the story of Fabius Petronius Secundus – Roman legionary and centurion – and of his general Scipio

Patterson explores how modern men and women respond to the threat of new warfare with new capacities for imagining aggression and death. This is an unflinching