The Ultimate Experience: Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450-2000

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
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 06/01/2008
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.94w x 1.05d
ISBN: 9780230536920

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

About the Author
YUVAL NOAH HARARI is a military historian specializing in the study of war experience and war culture. He lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.