Presents the first full-length study of one of Britain's most important military thinkers, Major-General Sir Charles E. Callwell.

The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare, from its origins in classical Greece and Rome, t

Published in English in 1806, later in the century this work had considerable influence upon Prussian and Austrian military thought.

The author offers a detailed comparison between the character of irregular warfare, insurgency in particular, and the principal enduring features of "the Americ