The Ultimate Experience: Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450-2000 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230536920)

For millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more than a test: it became a secular revelation. This new understanding of war as revelation completely transformed Western war culture, revolutionizing politics, the personal experience of war, the status of common soldiers, and the tenets of military theory.

Author: Y. Harari
ISBN-10: 0230536921
ISBN-13: 9780230536920
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 03/07/2008
Pages: 386
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.94w x 1.05d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 10/10/2008 pg. 20