Land of War: A History of European Warfare from Achilles to Putin
William Nester
Jun 2023 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by David Colacci
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War in Europe began with the first human migrants. Rival bands fought for thousands of years before the Greeks and Romans began writing about their military history, first as legend-for instance, the hero Achilles battling the Trojans-and then as fact. Finally, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, technology exploded: railroads, steamships, telegraphs, machine guns, automobiles, airplanes, and tanks enabled European states to muster, equip, arm, transport, and command more men than ever before, with more firepower than ever before. In the past seventy-five years, atomic weapons changed the military landscape of Europe-as have the internet and cyber warfare. In this new telling of European warfare-and European history through the continent's all too numerous wars and conflicts-William Nester describes millennia of armed conflict. He covers the "greatest hits" of military history both ancient and current: Thermopylae, the Peloponnesian War, the wars of the Roman Empire across the continent, the Battle of Hastings, the Crusades, Agincourt, Waterloo, Napoleon and Wellington, the Somme, the Spanish Civil War, Stalingrad and Normandy, Churchill, Hitler, and Stalin, Bosnia, and up through Putin's attempts to redraw the map of Europe. Land of War is an epic odyssey from Europe's mythic origins through its latest violent conflicts.
About the author
William Nester is a professor at the Department of Government and Politics, St. John's University, New York. He is the award-winning author of thirty-seven books on history and politics, including George Rogers Clark: "I Glory in War" and Titan: The Art of British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon.
David Colacci has been an actor and a director for over thirty years, and has worked as a narrator for over fifteen years. He has won AudioFile Earphones Awards, earned Audie nominations, and been included in Best of the Year lists by such publications as Publishers Weekly, AudioFile magazine, and Library Journal.
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