The Shield of Achilles
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The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History
By Philip Bobbitt, Prof Philip Bobbitt"We are at a moment in world affairs when the essential ideas that govern statecraft must change. For five centuries it has taken the resources of a state to destroy...
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The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History
By Philip BobbittThis ambitious book sets out to reinterpret the history of the twentieth century as a long war in which conditions of outright military confrontation or of frantic "cold" competition lasted from the outbreak of the first world war until the ...
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The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History
By Philip BobbittFor five centuries it has taken the resources of a state to destroy another state . . . This is no longer true, owing to advances in international telecommunications, rapid computation, and weapons of mass destruction.
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The Shield of Achilles
By W. H. AudenFeaturing an authoritative text and an introduction and notes by Alan Jacobs, this volume brings Auden’s collection back into print for the first time in decades and offers the only critical edition of the work.
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The Shield of Achilles
By W. H. Auden"The first critical edition of W. H. Auden's poetry collection The Shield of Achilles, which won the 1956 National Book Award in Poetry, this book will include the complete text of Auden's award-winning volume The Shield of Achilles, ...