Content area
Full Text
War in European History. By Michael Howard. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009 [1976]. ISBN 978-0-19-954619. Notes. Index. Pp. xii, 171. $9.99.
Sir Michael Howard has reissued his survey with a substantial new "Epilogue: The End of the European Era" and a thoroughly overhauled "Notes on Further Reading." When first published in 1976 this book was unusual in underplaying the importance in war of technology and elevating social and moral factors. Howard now takes this approach further, noting that after 1945 Europe "not only ceased to be a...