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(0)Margaret MacMillan
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 312 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"War, the instinct to fight, is inherent in human nature; peace is the aberration in history. War has shaped humanity, its institutions, its states, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, 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 the most vile and the noblest aspects of humanity. Margaret...
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Edition
2009 Modern Library ed., 1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 188 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the ways in which history has been used to influence people and government, focusing on how reportage of past events has been manipulated to justify religious movements and political campaigns.
