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The Ultimate Experience

Battlefield Revelations and the Making of Modern War Culture, 1450-2000

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction: War as Revelation, 1865–2000

  3. The Supremacy of Mind: 1450–1740

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
    2. Why War Revealed Nothing

      • Yuval Noah Harari
      Pages 95-125
  4. The Revolt of the Body: 1740–1865

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-128
    2. Bodies Begin to Think

      • Yuval Noah Harari
      Pages 129-159
    3. The Rise of the Common Soldier

      • Yuval Noah Harari
      Pages 160-196
    4. The Rise of the Revelatory Interpretation of War

      • Yuval Noah Harari
      Pages 197-298
  5. Conclusions: The Things Which Make You Know, 1865–2000

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 307-386

About this book

For millennia, war was viewed as a supreme test. In the period 1750-1850 war became much more than a test: it became a secular revelation. This new understanding of war as revelation completely transformed Western war culture, revolutionizing politics, the personal experience of war, the status of common soldiers, and the tenets of military theory.

Reviews

'Like a good detective story, Harari presents us with facts and clues which seem to lead towards one conclusion, only to puncture our certainties. This is a book of exraordinary wit, erudition, and range.' - Professor Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck College, University of London

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

    Yuval Noah Harari

About the author

YUVAL NOAH HARARI  is a military historian specializing in the study of war experience and war culture. He lectures at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

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