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95/100Author:
Margaret MacMillan
Publisher:
Random House
Date:
October 6, 2020
The author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an essential component of humanity.
What The Reviewers Say
... richly eclectic.
The book is divided into nine chapters that deal, in a remarkably comprehensive way, with a wide array of themes, such as the reasons for conflicts and the ways in which societies commemorate wars. In between, we find out how different societies at different times waged wars and what distinguishes pre-modern wars from modern conflicts. The result is an eminently readable reflection on armed conflict throughout human history.
Clearly averse to viewing history through such a moralizing lens, MacMillan prefers cold-eyed scrutiny.
MacMillan’s book ranges briskly and fluently across the entire history of human warfare. As poor Ötzi’s story suggests, she is a bracingly unsentimental observer with an admirable eye for detail..
