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by William Nester (Author)
In this colorful new telling of European warfare--and indeed European history through the continent's all too numerous wars and conflicts--William Nester describes millennia of armed conflict. He covers the "greatest hits" of military history, taking readers on an epic odyssey from Europe's mythic origins through its latest violent conflicts.
Author Biography
William Nester is a professor at St. John's University in Queens, New York. He has written more than two dozen books on global politics/power and the history of warfare, including books about Europe's colonial wars in North America, Napoleon, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles De Gaulle, and Winston Churchill. His book George Rogers Clark: "I Glory in War" received a 2013 Distinguished Writing Award from the Army Historical Foundation; bestselling author Douglas Brinkley praised it as "an important contribution to early U.S. history."
