Introduction; 1. The Enlightenment and its Enemies; 2. The Twentieth Century: Liberation or Catastrophe; 3 The Shifting Balance; Part 2 The German Wars; 4. The First World War reconsidered; 5. War and Peace in 1914; 6. War and the Making of Nations; 7. A Thirty Years War?; 8. A Missed Opportunity? Britain and the German Resistance; Part 3 The Cold War; 9. The Cold War; 10. Fifty Years of European Peace; 11. Cold War; Chill Peace; 12. NATO: An Unhappy but Successful Marriage; Part 4 Europe after the Cold War; 13. What is Europe?; 14. The European States-System; 15. Britain, France and the Making of Europe; Part 5 The War Against Terror; 16. War Against Terrorism; 17. September 11th and After; 18. Keeping Order in a Global Society.
Professor Sir Michael Howard was Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History, and than at Oxford was the Regius Chair of Modern History. Among his most celebrated books are The Franco-Prussian War, War in European History, and The Invention of Peace.
"An emphatic commentary... Pleasingly direct, occasionally
humourous" The First Post--Sanford Lakoff
"Michael Howard writes about what history suggest with regard to
the present and the future perhaps a reflection of time spent in
combat in Italy against Germans, where he earned a Military Cross.
In the 1950s Howard headed the Department of War Studies at King's
College, London. He later co-founded the international Institute
for Strategic Studies. This collection of Howard's lectures,
developed between 1992 and 2003, will probably be his last book. In
it he examines the larger framework of the 20th century, the German
wars, the Cold War, Europe after the Cold War, and the War on
Terrorism." Williamson Murray, Military History, March/April 2008
--Sanford Lakoff
"This is an excellent book ... It is not easy to craft a good
lecture that reads well on the page, or vice versa for that matter;
it is a trick that Sir Michael brings off brilliantly." Alistair
Irwin, The Spectator--Sanford Lakoff "The Spectator "
'Howard has published another magisterial book' The Naval
Review
"These essays are a wonderful reminder of just what a judicious,
thoughtful, yet passively humane historial mind can tell us about
the past and suggest to us about the future" Richard Overy,
Literary Review, December 2007
'Howard has published another magisterial book'The Naval Review
"[A]n impressive work...This collection is particularly strong on
the World Wars, the Cold War and the War on Terror." Reviewed by
Professor Jeremy Black, The Historical Association
"Howard's is a deeply humane voice of wisdom, that of a humanist in
an age of ideology, warning us that history is there to teach us by
example. We ignore those examples at our peril." Reviewed by
Christopher Coker in Times Literary Supplement, 2008
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