Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare: The Triumph of the West » (Revised)

Geoffrey Parker is Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History at the Ohio State University. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, 1567-1659 (second edition, Cambridge, 2004) and The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 (second edition, Cambridge, 2001).

A history of Western warfare from antiquity to the present in a social and global context.

Bloomsbury Review

The volume's thesis, controversial for some, claims that it is the West's peculiar form of waging war that has led it to dominate so much of the globe. As the various essays in the book outline the development of war in the West, they very ably support that central thesis copious illustrations—especially the battle plans and reconstructions will be welcome reading to anyone who wants a broad overview of warfare.