About the book
From the Norse invasions onward, Michael Howard surveys how Europeans have waged war across the last thousand years. Moving from the age of medieval knights to the industrialized mass warfare of the 20th century, he shows how fighting shaped the continent's social and political institutions, and how technological and social change in turn altered the way wars were fought. The result works as a concise overview of European society as a whole rather than a narrow military history. A newer edition adds updated further reading and a final chapter that carries the account into the 21st century, covering the invasion of Iraq and the War on Terror.
Appian CEO Matt Calkins said studying how a heavily examined war such as World War I unfolded is the clearest way to see how the world settles its conflicts, and that business works the same way.
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Matt Calkins (CEO/Appian)
The best way to understand how the world resolves its conflicts and its tensions is by looking at how a conflict that has been studied thoroughly, like World War I, unfolded and resolved. Business is like this too. If anyone were to ever get to the heart of Coke vs. Pepsi, they would see a parade of mistakes in the same way World War I looks in retrospect—so many ways you could have done better.
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