Books written by Martin van Creveld

  • Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton
    Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton

    Drawing on a very wide range of unpublished and previously unexploited sources, Martin van Creveld examines the "nuts and bolts" of war.

  • Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present
    Technology and War: From 2000 B.C. to the Present

    This cogent volume--the result of a five-year research project originally commissioned by the Pentagon--gives both general readers and military professionals alike a broad, comprehensive picture of technology's historical role in...

  • Seeing into the Future: A Short History of Prediction
    Seeing into the Future: A Short History of Prediction

    From the ancients watching the flight of birds to the murky activities of Google and Facebook today, Seeing into the Future provides vital insight into the past, present, and—of course—future of prediction.

  • Men, Women and War
    Men, Women and War

    Throughout history, women have been shielded from the heat of battle, their role limited to supporting the men who do the actual fighting.

  • Fighting Power: German and US Army Performance, 1939-1945
    Fighting Power: German and US Army Performance, 1939-1945

    Analyses the performance of two key parties engaged in fighting during World War II.

  • On Future War

    An examination of the nature of war and its radical transformation in our own time.

  • The Culture of War
    The Culture of War

    This provocative book sets out to show how wrongheaded, and even dangerous, such attitudes are.

  • The Privileged Sex

    But are the charges true? Do women really have a worse time of it than men? This volume, one of the very few in any language, takes on these questions head on.