{"product_id":"has-this-world-ever-known-winston-phillips-9798235128835","title":"Has This World Ever Known Peace?","description":"\u003cp\u003eHistorians estimate that in the last 3,400 years of recorded history, humanity has known only 268 years without\u003cbr\u003ewar - roughly 8 percent of the time. Has This World Ever Known Peace? takes that staggering statistic and\u003cbr\u003eturns it into a question worth sitting with: is conflict simply what we are, or is it something we have chosen, \u003cbr\u003eagain and again, when better paths were available?\u003cbr\u003eThis sweeping work of narrative non-fiction moves across 3,400 years of human conflict, from the earliest\u003cbr\u003erecorded wars in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt through the empires of Rome, Persia, and China, into the\u003cbr\u003ereligious wars of the medieval world, the colonial conquests that reshaped continents, the industrial-scale\u003cbr\u003eslaughter of the twentieth century, and the conflicts, insurgencies, and civil wars still unfolding today.\u003cbr\u003eStructured across eighteen chapters and three distinct parts, the book does not simply catalogue famous battles.\u003cbr\u003eIt deliberately seeks out the forgotten conflicts - the wars history textbooks skipped, the civilian populations\u003cbr\u003ewhose suffering rarely made it into official records, and the quieter human cost that sits behind every date and\u003cbr\u003edeath toll.\u003cbr\u003eAlong the way, Winston Phillips asks harder questions than \"what happened.\" Why does war keep repeating\u003cbr\u003eacross every era, culture, and technology level? What psychological and social forces make organised violence so\u003cbr\u003epersistently attractive to leaders and nations? And what would it actually take - psychologically, politically, \u003cbr\u003eculturally - for humanity to break a 3,400-year pattern?\u003cbr\u003eWritten in an accessible, humane, and genuinely thought-provoking style, this is not a dry military chronicle. It\u003cbr\u003eis a book for readers of popular history, geopolitics, and human nature alike - anyone who has ever looked at\u003cbr\u003ethe news and wondered whether things have always been this way, and whether they could ever be different.\u003cbr\u003eAmbitious in scope and deeply human in focus, Has This World Ever Known Peace? is ultimately less a history\u003cbr\u003eof war than a case for what peace would actually require.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an original work of narrative non-fiction by Winston Phillips. All content, writing, and storytelling are entirely the author's own original creation, (c) 2026 Winston Phillips, London, England. All rights reserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCONTENT ADVISORY\u003cbr\u003eDiscusses war, mass violence, genocide, colonial conquest, and historical civilian casualties across multiple eras.\u003cbr\u003eHandled with historical context and a humane, non-graphic tone, but readers sensitive to depictions of war and\u003cbr\u003eatrocity should be aware of the subject matter throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Winston Phillips\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798235128835\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Winston Phillips\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/09\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d","brand":"Winston Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665967354111,"sku":"9798235128835","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ab85f14d-0f78-469a-a258-10c1ec4d3c1b.jpg?v=1792014878","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/has-this-world-ever-known-winston-phillips-9798235128835","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}