Zook David H., Higham Robin. A Short History of Warfare

Twayne Publishers, 1967. — 502 p.This book describes and looks at the Western Military Experience and history of warfare from the Ancient Greeks to the present day. The authors examines war as a global phenomenon, looking at the First and Second World Wars as well as those ranging from Han China and Assyria, Imperial Rome, and Napoleonic France to modern conflicts. They explores too the significance of warfare more broadly and the ways in which cultural understandings of conflict have lasting consequences in societies across the world.