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...