War Studies Reader From the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day and Beyond

by Sheffield, Gary

• ISBN13: 9780826420701
• ISBN10: 0826420702
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-09-02
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This reader will provide authoritative and thought-provoking pieces of War Studies scholarship in an accessible form. Covering a wide spectrum of topics, including strategy (Colin S. Gray), 'Shell-Shock and the Cultural History of the Great War' (Jay Winter) and Coalition Warfare (Holger H. Herwig), this book purposefully ranges across military history, international relations and contemporary security to capture the multidisciplinary nature of the subject. Gary Sheffield also provides an introduction to the reader and to War Studies, explaining the growth and development of this dynamic field of study. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Gary Sheffield is Professor of War Studies at the University of Birmingham. He was previously based in the Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and was Senior Lecturer in the Defence Studies Department of King's College, London.

Table of Contents

Editor's Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Why Study Military History?	p. 17
Why Strategy is Difficult	p. 35
General William T. Sherman and Total War	p. 47
Disjointed Allies: Coalition Warfare in Berlin and Vienna, 1914	p. 84
"Freies Deutschland" Guerrilla Warfare in East Prussia, 1944-1945: A Contribution to the History of the German Resistance	p. 103
Revolutions in Warfare: Theoretical Paradigms and Historical Evidence-The Napoleonic and First World War Revolutions in Military Affairs	p. 129
Atrocity, War Crime, and Treason in the English Civil War	p. 158
Shell-shock and the Cultural History of the Great War	p. 201
War Casualties, Policy Positions, and the Fate of Legislators	p. 208
Chinese Military Power: What Vexes the United States and Why?	p. 236
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