Vera Brittain, “Testament of Youth” (1933). TONY JUDT, director of the Remarque Institute at New York University, author of “Postwar.” With remarkable erudition, wit and irony, Weinberg shows how dozens of seemingly unconnected wars in Europe, North Africa, the Pacific, China and Russia coalesced into one global conflagration. The best one-volume history of World War II. Gerhard Weinberg, “A World at Arms” (1994). He possessed an eerie grasp of how primordial emotions spark wars, and how true morality is found in ending them as quickly as possible. While Sherman is often castigated as a terrorist and butcher, these memoirs show otherwise. William Tecumseh Sherman, “Memoirs of General W. VICTOR DAVIS HANSON, senior fellow in military history and classics at the Hoover Institution at Stanford and author of “A War Like No Other.” My copy bristles with Post-its marking, for example, his argument on how guns required that an army become “an articulated organism with a central nervous system.”
The gold standard of military, economic and social history. O’Connell starts with sticks and stones and winds up with nuclear weapons, showing how gun-based warfare redefined masculine courage, from slashing around in the “Iliad” to cold, emotionless precision-killing. Although there are many good men.”īARBARA EHRENREICH, author of “Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War.” That is one reason why there are so very few good officers. But to be a good officer you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. Lee’s dark insight: “To be a good soldier you must love the army. This carefully crafted novel offers Robert E. Michael Shaara, “The Killer Angels” (1974). If war is really a continuation of politics by other means, one cannot speak of it as a failure of policy, a last resort or an accident. Incomplete, turgid, seemingly obvious in places, but still the greatest book on war, and possibly the most disturbing. COHEN, professor of strategic studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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