Promotional Information

Examining developments in warfare that range from technological to cultural, Black details the rise and demise of the era of total warfare between regular forces.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Overawing the World 1860-1914
Developments within the West 1860-1871
Uneasy Peace and Small Wars, 1872-1913
World War I, 1914-1918
Between the World Wars, 1919-1938
World War II, 1939-1945
Postscript
Selected Further Reading
Index

About the Author

Jeremy Black, author of more than forty books on military history and international affairs, is Professor of History at Exeter University in the United Kingdom.

Reviews

In The Age of Total War, Black builds on his impressive record of scholarship and provides an effective and useful study of the course and conduct of war during the second half of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries that offers insightful consideration of total war as a central theme in the military history of the period….Black's effective synethesis of scholarship and thought-provoking analysis make this a work of much value to students of this period in world military history….[i]t will work well for instructors seeking to stimulate thought and discussion in graduate-level courses and a supplemental text for undergraduate courses.
*The Journal of Military History*