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A History of Warfare

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by John Keegan


  33 Ibid., pp. 218–21

  34 McNeill, The Rise of the West, p. 15

  35 Saggs, op. cit., p. 169

  36 J. Saunders, The History of the Mongol Conquests, London, 1991, pp. 9–10

  37 Ibid., p. 14; Gernet, op. cit., pp. 4–5

  38 W. McNeill, The Human Condition, Princeton, 1980, p. 47

  39 D. Maenchen-Helfen, The World of the Huns, Berkeley, 1973, p. 187

  40 Ibid., p. 267

  41 Ibid., p. 184

  42 Ibid., p. 180

  43 J. Jakobsen and R. Adams, ‘Salt and Silt in Ancient Mesopotamian Agriculture’, Science, CXXVIII, 1958, p. 257

  44 L. Kwantem, Imperial Nomads: A History of Central Asia, 500–1500, Leicester, 1979, p. 12

  45 A. Jones, The Later Roman Empire, 284–602, Oxford, 1962, p. 157

  46 J. Bury, A History of the Later Roman Empire, 1927, I, p. 300, n. 3

  47 R. Lindner, ‘Nomadism, Horses and Huns’, Past and Present, 92 (1981), pp. 1–19

  48 J. Lucas, Fighting Troops of the Austro-Hungarian Army, New York, 1987, p. 149

  49 Marquess of Anglesey, A History of British Cavalry, IV, London, 1986, p. 297

  50 Maenchen-Helfen, op. cit., pp. 152–3

  51 P. Ratchnevsky, Genghis Khan, Oxford, 1991, p. 155

  52 Kwantem, op. cit., p. 21; the Ephthalites appear to have spoken Tocharian, an extinct Indo-European language

  53 Saunders, op. cit., p. 27

  54 Ibid.

  55 J. Keegan, The Mask of Command, London, 1988, p. 18

  56 Ferrill, op. cit., p. 70

  57 A. Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples, London, 1991, p. 19

  58 Koran 9: 125

  59 P.M. Holt and others, Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. IA, Cambridge, 1977, pp. 87–92

  60 Cambridge History of Islam, op. cit., p. 42

  61 Sallares, op. cit., p. 27

  62 D. Hill, ‘The Role of the Camel and the Horse in the Early Arab Conquests’, in Parry and Yapp, op. cit., p. 36

  63 Ibid., pp. 57–8

  64 Cambridge History of Islam, op. cit., p. 60

  65 Ibid.

  66 Pipes, op. cit., pp. 109–13

  67 Ibid., p. 148

  68 Saunders, op. cit., p. 37

  69 Kwantem, op. cit., p. 61

  70 Cambridge History of Islam, op. cit., p. 150

  71 Ratchnevsky, op. cit., p. 109

  72 Kwantem, op. cit., pp. 12–13

  73 Chen Ya-tien, Chinese Military Theory, Stevenage, 1992, pp. 21–30

  74 Gernet, op. cit., p. 309

  75 Ibid., p. 310

  76 Ratchnevsky, op. cit., pp. 194–5

  77 Kwantem, op. cit., p. 188

  78 Ratchnevsky, op. cit., pp. 4–5

  79 B. Manz, The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane, Cambridge, 1989, p. 4

  80 Saunders, op. cit., pp. 196–9

  81 Kwantem, op. cit., p. 192

  82 Ibid., p. 108

  83 Saunders, op. cit., p. 66

  84 Ratchnevsky, op. cit., pp. 96–101

  85 Cambridge History of Islam, op. cit., p. 158

  86 Kwantem, op. cit., p. 159; S. Shaw, History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, Vol. II, Cambridge, 1976, p. 184

  87 D. Morgan, ‘The Mongols in Syria’, in P. Edburg (ed.), Crusade and Settlement, Cardiff, 1985, pp. 231–5

  88 P. Thorau, ‘The Battle of Ain Jalut: A Re-examination’, in ibid., pp. 236–41

  89 Ibid., p. 238

  90 Manz, op. cit., pp. 14–16

  91 B. Spuler, The Mongols in History, London, 1971, p. 80

  92 Shaw, op. cit., I, p. 245

  93 Ratchnevsky, op. cit., pp. 153–4

  94 See Keegan, Mask of Command, esp. Chapter 2

  95 C. Duffy, Russia’s Military Way to the West, London, 1981, p. 2

  96 J. Fairbank, ‘Varieties of Chinese Military Experience’, in F. Kierman and J. Fairbank, Chinese Ways in Warfare, Cambridge, Mass., 1974

  97 Ibid., p. 7

  98 Ibid., p. 15

  99 Ibid., p. 14

  100 Gernet, op. cit., p. 493

  ARMIES

  1 Parkinson, op. cit., p. 176

  2 J. Elting, Swords Around a Throne, London, 1989, Chapters 18–19

  3 H. Roeder (ed.), The Ordeal of Captain Roeder, London, 1960

  4 N. Jones, Hitler’s Heralds, London, 1987, passim

  5 S. Andreski, Military Organisation and Society, London, 1968

  6 W. McNeill, Plagues and People, New York, 1976

  7 Andreski, op. cit., p. 33

  8 Ibid., pp. 91–107, 75–90

  9 Ibid., p. 26

  10 Seaton, op. cit., p. 57

  11 Andreski, op. cit., p. 27

  12 Ibid., p. 37

  13 M. Lewis, The Navy of Britain, London, 1948, pp. 128–44

  14 G. Jones, A History of the Vikings, Oxford, 1984, p. 211

  15 Manz, op. cit., p. 17

  16 Ratchnetsky, op. cit., p. 66

  17 Hourani, op. cit., pp. 139–40

  18 S. Blondal, The Varangians of Byzantium, Cambridge, 1978, p. 230–5

  19 P. Mansel, Pillars of Monarchy, London, 1984, p. 1

  20 Garlan, op cit., p. 95

  21 M. Mallet, Mercenaries and their Masters, London, 1974, pp. 60–1

  22 L. Keppie, The Making of the Roman Army, London, 1984, p. 17

  23 P. Paret (ed.), Makers of Modern Strategy, p. 19

  24 W. Doyle, The Oxford History of the French Revolution, 1989, pp. 204–5

  4 IRON

  1 R.J. Forbes, Metallurgy in Antiquity, London, 1950, p. 380

  2 Ibid., pp. 418–19

  3 R. Oakeshott, The Archaeology of Weapons, London, 1960, pp. 40–2

  4 N. Sandars, The Sea Peoples, London, 1985, pp. 56–8

  5 P. Greenhalgh, Early Greek Warfare, Cambridge, 1993, pp. 10–11

  6 Ibid., pp. 1–2

  7 N. Hammond, A History of Greece to 322 BC, Oxford, 1959, p. 73

  8 Ibid., p. 81

  9 Ibid., p. 99

  10 Ibid., p. 100

  11 Ibid., p. 101

  12 V. Hanson, The Western Way of War, New York, 1989

  13 V. Hanson, Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece, Pisa, 1983, p. 59

  14 Ibid., pp. 50–4

  15 Ibid., p. 42

  16 Ibid., pp. 67–74

  17 Hanson, Western Way, p. 6

  18 Ibid., pp. 4, 34

  19 M. Finley and H. Plaket, The Olympic Games, New York, 1976, p. 19

  20 D. Sansome, Greek Athletics and the Genesis of Sport, Berkeley, 1988, pp. 19, 50–3, 63

  21 M. Poliakoff, Combat Sports in the Ancient World, New Haven, 1987, pp. 93, 96

  22 Finley and Plaket, op. cit., p. 21

  23 Poliakoff, op. cit., pp. 93–4

  24 A. Snodgrass, ‘The Hoplite Reform and History’, Journal of Hellenic Studies, 85 (1965), pp. 110–22

  25 M. Jameson, ‘Sacrifice before Battle’, in V. Hanson (ed.), Hoplites, London, 1991, p. 220

  26 E. Wheeler, ‘The General as Hoplite’, in ibid., pp. 150–4

  27 J. Lazenby, ‘The Killing Zone’, in ibid., p. 88

  28 Hanson, Western Way, p. 185

  29 Ibid., pp. 64–5

  30 Ibid., pp. 180–1

  31 Ibid., p. 36

  32 Ibid., p. 4

  33 Roberts, op. cit., p. 178

  34 E. Wood, Peasant, Citizen and Slave, London, 1981, pp. 42–4

  35 Hanson, Western Way, pp. 10, 16

  36 Sandars, op. cit., pp. 125–31

  37 Garlan, op. cit., pp. 130–1

  38 Hammond, op. cit., pp. 289–90

  39 Ibid., pp. 661–2

  40 Keegan, Mask of Command, pp. 78–9

  41 Ibid., p. 80

  42 Ibid., p. 82

  43 Hammond, op. cit., p. 615

  44 L. Keppie, op. cit.

  45 Hammond, op. cit., p. 236

  46 Keppie, op. cit., p. 18

  47 W. Harris, War and Imperialism in Republican Rome, Oxford, 1979, p
p. 54–67

  48 Ibid., p. 56

  49 Ibid., p. 51

  50 Ibid., p. 48

  51 Keppie, op. cit., p. 18

  52 Harris, op. cit., pp. 44–6

  53 Ibid., pp. 11–12

  54 Keppie, op. cit., p. 53

  55 J. Keegan, The Face of Battle, London, 1976, p. 65

  56 G. Watson, The Roman Soldier, London, 1985, pp. 72–4

  57 Van der Heyden and Scullard, op. cit., p. 125

  58 Keppie, op. cit., pp. 61–2

  59 J. Balsdon, Rome, London, 1970, p. 91

  60 A. Ferrill, The Fall of the Roman Empire, London, 1986, p. 25

  61 Luttwak, op. cit., pp. 191–4

  62 D. Breeze and B. Dobson, Hadrian’s Wall, London, 1976, pp. 247–8

  63 Balsdon, op. cit., pp. 90–1

  64 Ferrill, Fall of the Roman Empire, pp. 48–9

  65 Ibid., p. 140

  66 Ibid., p. 160

  67 J. Fuller, The Decisive Battles of the Western World, London, 1954, pp. 307–29

  68 A. Jones, The Decline of the Ancient World, London, 1966, pp. 297–9

  69 Ibid., p. 102

  70 J. Beeler, War in Feudal Europe, 730–1200, Ithaca, 1991, pp. 2–5

  71 Ibid., p. 17

  72 M. Van Crefeld, Technology and War, London, 1991, p. 18

  73 Ibid., p. 20

  74 Beeler, op. cit., pp. 228–32

  75 Johnson, Late Roman Fortifications, pp. 8–16

  76 G. Jones, Vikings, pp. 182–92

  77 Ibid., p. 76

  78 H. Cowdray, ‘The Genesis of the Crusades’, in T. Murphy (ed.), The Holy War, Columbus, 1976, pp. 17–18

  79 Beeler, op. cit., p. 12

  80 Runciman, op. cit., pp. 106–8

  81 Ibid., pp. 91–2

  82 R. Smail, Crusading Warfare, Cambridge, 1956, pp. 115–20

  83 Ibid., p. 202

  84 G. Sainty, The Order of St John, New York, 1991, pp. 105

  85 P. Contamine, War in the Middle Ages, p. 75

  86 Ewart, op. cit., pp. 283–4

  87 Smail, op. cit., pp. 165–8

  LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY

  1 Watson, op. cit., pp. 63–5

  2 P. Liddle, The 1916 Battle of the Somme, London, 1992, p. 39

  3 J. Thompson, No Picnic, London, 1992, p. 89

  4 Keegan, Mask of Command, p. 134

  5 Luttwak, op. cit., map 2.2

  6 C. Callwell, Small Wars: Their Principles and Practice, London, 1899, p. 40

  7 T. Derry and T. Williams, A Short History of Technology, Oxford, 1960, p. 433

  8 R. Chevallier, Roman Roads, London, 1976, p. 152

  9 Piggott, op. cit., p. 345

  10 Keegan, Mask of Command, p. 114

  11 D. Engels, Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army, Berkeley, 1978, p. 112

  12 M. Grant, The Army of the Caesars, London, 1974, p. xxiii

  13 Deny and Williams, op. cit., pp. 691–5

  14 B. Wiley, The Life of Johnny Reb, Baton Rouge, 1918, p. 92

  15 J. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, New York, 1988, pp. 11–12

  16 Ibid., pp. 424–7

  17 D. Showalter, Railroads and Rifles, Hamden, 1975, p. 67

  18 J. Edmonds, A Short History of World War I, Oxford, 1951, pp. 9–10

  19 J. Piekalkiewicz, Pferd und Reiter im II Weltkrieg, Munich, 1976, p. 4

  20 J. Beaumont, Comrades in Arms, London, 1980, p. 208

  21 J. Thompson, The Lifeblood of War, London, 1991, p. 38

  22 McNeill, Pursuit of Power, pp. 322, 324, 329

  23 Watson, op. cit., p. 51

  24 Derry and Williams, op. cit., p. 269

  25 McNeill, Pursuit of Power, pp. 166–7

  26 Ibid., p. 170

  27 Ibid., p. 238

  28 Ibid., p. 290

  29 A. Milward, War, Economy and Society, 1939–45, London, 1977, pp. 64–9, 76

  30 D. Van der Vat, The Atlantic Campaign, London, 1988, pp. 229, 270, 351

  5 FIRE

  1 Derry and Wells, op. cit., pp. 268–9, 514

  2 J. Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, I, Cambridge, 1954, p. 134

  3 McNeill, Pursuit of Power, p. 39

  4 Ibid., pp. 82–3

  5 Duffy, Siege Warfare, pp. 8–9

  6 Ibid., p. 9

  7 Ibid., p. 15

  8 Ibid., p. 25

 

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