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Title: Armament and History: The Influence of Armament on History from the Dawn of Classical Warfare to the End of the Second World War by J. F. C. Fuller ISBN: 0-306-80859-5 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Good 2nd or 3rd Book on the Subject
Comment: There are a lot of good books on the relationship between technology and warfare, and if you're interested enough in the subject to read several of them, Fuller is a good choice for #2 or #3. It misses being a good choice for #1 for several reasons:
1) Time Frame. Fuller wrote in 1945, and so his treatment of the nuclear age is speculative rather than retrospective. The speculations are nearly all interesting, but they focus on nuclear weapons to the exclusion of conventional arms with which post-1945 wars were actually fought.
2) Depth. Fuller is exhaustive on land warfare in the 1800-1945 era, but often sketchy on the pre-industrial era(s) and on anything connected with the sea. The things he does have to say are interesting and well supported, but the background to make sense of them is often lacking.
3) Perspective. Fuller was a career military officer and one of the people who developed the tactics (in 1917-1919) for what became (in 1939-45) modern, highly mobile land warfare. His view of history is (reasonably and properly) shaped by that experience, and it helps to have some sense of Fuller the military thinker *before* you approach Fuller the historian.
None of these faults keeps _Armarments and History_ from succeeding on its own terms. It's a thoughtful and well-documented argument. Readers interested in military history and military technology will find a lot of valuable insights and ideas in it. BUT if you're looking for a first (or only) book to read on the subject, try Martin Van Creveld's _Technology and War_ or Robert O'Connell's _Arms and Men_ or Bernard and Fawn Brodie's _From Crossbow to H-Bomb_ (roughly in that order of preference).
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Title: The Social History of the Machine Gun by John Ellis, Edward C. Ezell ISBN: 0801833582 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 1986 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Conduct of War: 1789-1961: A Study of the Impact of the French, Industrial, and Russian Revolutions on War and Its Conduct by J. F.C. Fuller ISBN: 0306804670 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: The Second World War, 1939-45: A Strategical and Tactical History by J.F.C., Major General Fuller ISBN: 0306805065 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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Title: A Military History of the Western World: From the Defeat of the Spanish Armada to the Battle of Waterloo by J. F. C. Fuller ISBN: 0306803054 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: May, 1988 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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Title: Of Arms and Men: A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression by Robert L. O'Connell ISBN: 0195053605 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: April, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.31 |
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