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War

Gwynne Dyer

1985272 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1985
first published
  • 1985Crown · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9780517556153
  • 1985Dorsey Press · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9780256036459
  • 1985Stoddart · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9780773720688
  • 1986Bodley Head · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9780370307282
  • 2004Random House Canada · 484 pages · ENGISBN 9780679313113
  • 2005Carroll & Graf · 484 pages · ENGISBN 9780786715381
  • 2006Carroll & Graf · 496 pages · ENGISBN 9780786717712
  • 2005Vintage Canada · 496 pages · ENGISBN 9780679313120

Ranging from the tumbling walls of Jericho to the modern advent of total war in which no child or civilian is exempt from the horrors of combat, the author shows how the martial instinct has evolved over the human generations. He demonstrates that the underlying purpose of war has remained unchanged while technology has developed to such a degree that were total combat to break out among the great powers, a million people could be dead before worldwide media reported the conflict.

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