War : the lethal custom / Gwynne Dyer.

Carlton North, N.S.W. : Scribe publications, c2004.

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War.

War -- History.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. The nature of the beast

2. Anybody's son will do

3. The roots of war: Rousseau, Darwin and Hobbes

4. The rise of battle

5. The middle passage

6. The road to mass warfare

7. Reductio ad absurdum: total war

8. A short history of nuclear war, 1945-90

9. Keeping the old game alive

10. Guerrillas and terrorists

11. The end of war

Notes

Image credits

Index.

9781920769390

x, 484 p. : ill.