How long does it take to read The Cambridge History of Warfare?
The Cambridge History of Warfare by Geoffrey Parker takes about 9 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 52 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2005. 538 pages, about 147,950 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 26 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Western nations - led by the United States - currently hold a strong advantage in almost all military confrontations. How did the 'Western way of war' become so dominant? This book, written by a team of eight distinguished military historians, provides an answer that runs from the origins in Classical Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages (when enemies of the West almost triumphed) and the early modern period (when the West used military force to carve out extensive new territories, first in the Americas and Siberia and then around the coasts of Asia and Africa), down to the wars of the twenty-first century in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. The book stresses five essential aspects of the Western way of war: a combination of technology, discipline, and an aggressive military tradition with an extraordinary capacity to respond rapidly to challenges and to use capital rather than manpower to win. Although the focus throughout this book remains on the West, and on the role of violence in its rise, each chapter also examines the military effectiveness of its adversaries and the regions in which the West's military edge has been - and continues to be - challenged."--
Subjects: Military art and science, history, War and society, War, economic aspects, Civilization, western, Military art and science, Cambridge (england), history
