The Ultimate Experience (Hardcover)

Y Harari
Palgrave MacMillan UK
9780230536920
0-230-53692-1

For millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more than a test: it became a secular revelation. This new understanding of war as revelation completely transformed.

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Western war culture, revolutionizing politics, the personal experience of war, the status of common soldiers, and the tenets of military theory.