"The most comprehensive work ever published in any language on the history, the nature, the causes, and the cure of war. . . .A Study of War is a liberal education in the social disciplines, completely documented, admirably organized, and extremely readable."—FREDERICK L. SCHUMAN.

Begun shortly after the first world war, completed in the midst of the second, and reprinted with an updating commentary in 1965, this important work reveals through facts and figures the increasing need in our civilization of preventing war. It attempts to cope with this problem by clarifying the part war has played in the life of man since the earliest times, its relation to changing historical conditions, human attitudes, political organization, and military technology; and how it can be controlled—a problem made even more crucial since A Study of War was first published by the threat of the hydrogen bomb.