The Shortest History of War by Gwynne Dyer

The Shortest History of War by Gwynne DyerIn this timely addition to the bestselling shortest history series, acclaimed historian Gwynne Dyer tells the story of war from its prehistoric perhaps pre human origins up to the present age of algorithms and atom bombs. Dyer chronicles the spread of warfare in the world's first cities; the rise of inequality and tyranny as human societies grow; the millennium long classical age of combat ended by the the carnage of the Thirty Years' War; the brief

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