Ebook: Warfare in the Western World, 1882-1975
Author: Jeremy Black
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Acumen Publishing
- Language: English
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Beginning with the British conquest of Egypt, the subjugation of a leading non-Western state, the book goes on to examine the Spanish-American War of 1898, the Boer War and the Balklands conflicts leading to world war in 1914. A revisonist account of World War I is followed by a discussion of Western expansionism in the period to 1936. Chapters on the interwar years and World War II leads on to a discussion of the retreat from empire and the advent of Cold War. The narrative closes with the end of the Vietnam War in 1975 and a discussion of the limitations of Western military technique, doctrine and technology.
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