War: How Conflict Shaped Us - Margaret MacMillan - 2020







By: Margaret MacMillan

Narrated by: Deepti Gupta

Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins

Unabridged Audiobook

Release date: 10-06-20

Language: English

Genre: History, Military

Publisher: Random House Audio

Format: mp3 64/48 stereo



Publisher's Summary



Is peace an aberration? The best-selling author of Paris 1919 offers a provocative view of war as an essential component of humanity.



“Margaret MacMillan has produced another seminal work.... She is right that we must, more than ever, think about war. And she has shown us how in this brilliant, elegantly written book.” (H.R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty and Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World)



The instinct to fight may be innate in human nature, but war — organized violence — comes with organized society. War has shaped humanity’s history, its social and political institutions, its values and ideas. Our very language, our public spaces, our private memories, and some of our greatest cultural treasures reflect the glory and the misery of war. War is an uncomfortable and challenging subject not least because it brings out both the vilest and the noblest aspects of humanity.  



Margaret MacMillan looks at the ways in which war has influenced human society and how, in turn, changes in political organization, technology, or ideologies have affected how and why we fight. War: How Conflict Shaped Us explores such much-debated and controversial questions as: When did war first start? Does human nature doom us to fight one another? Why has war been described as the most organized of all human activities? Why are warriors almost always men? Is war ever within our control?  



Drawing on lessons from wars throughout the past, from classical history to the present day, MacMillan reveals the many faces of war — the way it has determined our past, our future, our views of the world, and our very conception of ourselves.



©2020 Margaret MacMillan (P)2020 Random House Audio











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