Books in the Routledge Library Editions: Security and Society series

Originally published in 1976, this book examines the careers of five distinguished 20th century soldiers and assesses their contribution as statesmen. Hindenburg, Byng, Franco, Eisenhower and De Gaulle all came into political life in different circumstances, but none did so in the name of the profession or to establish a praetorian state.

First published in 1994, Keith F. Otterbein's scholarship had followed an overall design since 1962, when he began conducting comparative studies of warfare using both ethnographic and cross-cultural methods. This volume will serve both as a useful introduction to the anthropology of war and as a needed compendium of Otterbein's ideas.

Originally published in 1976, this book explores the relationship between European society and the military institutions it fostered from 1815-1918. In the period from the fall of Napoleonic imperialism to the outbreak of the First World War armies and navies grew in complexity, cost and size.