Table of Contents

Introduction: The Shape of Modern War; PART 1: THE EVOLUTION OF MODERN WAR; The Military Revolution I: The Transition to Modern Warfare; The Military Revolution II: Eighteenth-Century War; The Nation in Arms I: The French Wars; The Nations in Arms II: The Nineteenth Century; Imperial Wars: From the Seven Years War to the First World War; Total War I: The Great War; Total War II: The Second World War; Cold War; PART 2: ELEMENTS OF MODERN WAR; People's War; Technology and War I: To 1945; Battle: The Experience of Modern Combat; Sea Warfare; Air Warfare; War and the People: The Social Impact of Total War; Women and War; Against War; Technology and War II: Postmodern War?

About the Author

Charles Townshend is Professor of History at the University of Keele. His books include Making the Peace: Public Order and Public Security in Modern Britain and Political Violence in Ireland: Government and Resistance since 1848.