War: How Conflict Shaped Us - Margaret MacMillan by Margaret MacMillan
Is peace an aberration? The New York Times bestselling author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an essential component of humanity., NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, Margaret MacMillan has produced another seminal work. . . . She is right that we must, more than ever, think about war. And she has shown us how in this brilliant, elegantly written book.H.R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty and Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World, The instinct to fight may be innate in human nature, but warorganized violencecomes with organized society. War has shaped humanitys history, its social and political institutions, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, and some of our greatest cultural treasures reflect the glory and the misery of war. War is an uncomfortable and challenging subject not least because it brings out both the vilest and the noblest aspects of humanity., Mar
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War: How Conflict Shaped Us - Margaret MacMillan
Margaret MacMillan
Category: History
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Is peace an aberration? The New York Times bestselling author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an essential component of humanity., NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, Margaret MacMillan has produced another seminal work. . . . She is right that we must, more than ever, think about war. And she has shown us how in this brilliant, elegantly written book.H.R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty and Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World, The instinct to fight may be innate in human nature, but warorganized violencecomes with organized society. War has shaped humanitys history, its social and political institutions, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, and some of our greatest cultural treasures reflect the glory and the misery of war. War is an uncomfortable and challenging subject not least because it brings out both the vilest and the noblest aspects of humanity., Mar
