General and Battlefield

Author: Cheng Dong
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: This book takes a humanistic perspective, selecting personal writings from famous figures in human history to comprehensively—both positively and negatively—scan human warfare, thereby showcasing the good and evil, power and helplessness, destructiveness and hope found in human war culture. War has always been a major event affecting human destiny, and an individual's ability to control their fate in the face of war is no greater than that of an ant. The special allure of war for humans is difficult to explain with simple logic—economic, political, diplomatic, historical, psychological, national, moral, ideological, and military reasons all interact with the "Pandora's Box" of human nature. Both the practitioners and observers of war have collectively created human war culture within this "Pandora's Box." This book takes a humanistic perspective, selecting personal writings from famous figures in human history to comprehensively—both positively and negatively—scan human warfare, thereby showcasing the good and evil, power and helplessness, destructiveness and hope found in human war culture. The authors who wrote the content of this book are an elite group in human history, and over 5,000 years, they have never written a book together. Now, they have gathered.