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Timelines of War: A Chronology of Warfare from 100,000 Bc to the Present

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If you think that mankind is anything other than the most savage animal on the planet, you might want to read this book to look at the thousands of wars, and countless battles over the millenia as tribe fought tribe.
This book gives a very superficial overview of history, in chronological form, and gets more detailed as it moves into the modern age. but it really isn't much but a listing of wars, and at 500 pages, shows how many there were, but doesn't do much other than show the timelines of events. No context, no analysis, no distinguishing of major vs. minor, and not really very good.
but it is cheap, and not without some merit.

Those who remember John and Yoko Lennon chanting this implausible nostrum, about the prospects for peace, will see the absurdity of the notion when they read this book. As long as man has existed there have been those among us who ascribe to power and dominion over all. The only way to staunch their ardor is to be ready to fight them. This is the cost of sustaining individual liberty, the touchstone of western civilization. Think of it as facing the bully down so he doesn't take your lunch money. Any other prospects for a solution other than this readiness to do combat fly in the face of all human history and common sense. This book will disabuse those who harbor these fantasies of the peacenik.

Those who remember John and Yoko Lennon chanting this implausible nostrum, about the prospects for peace, will see the absurdity of the notion when they read this book. As long as man has existed there have been those among us who ascribe to power and dominion over all. The only way to staunch their ardor is to be ready to fight them. This is the cost of sustaining individual liberty, the touchstone of western civilization. Think of it as facing the bully down so he doesn't take your lunch money. Any other prospects for a solution other than this readiness to do combat fly in the face of all human history and common sense. This book will disabuse those who harbor these fantasies of the peacenik.