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

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

Yuval Noah Harari

408 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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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 poli...

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