“这本简短、具有挑衅性且易于阅读的书提供了军事史上七个有害神话的快照，这些神话都是针对毫无戒心的学生、读者、电影观众、游戏玩家和政客犯下的。它促进了人们对“虚假的滥用和对历史的无知”如何创造神话的认识，以及如何
关于军事问题的误导性观点，如在不对称战争中，可能导致错误的解决方案。
“这本书既学术又引人入胜，是军事史和历史方法论课程的理想补充。事实上，它可以有效地应用于任何教授批判性思维技能的课程，包括历史学科以外的课程。军事史对学生有广泛的吸引力，对每个人都有好处。从所谓的‘西方战争方式’到它书中提到了曾经风靡一时的“军事革命”的“学术党派游戏”。书中还提到，虽然关于历史的神话可能很有趣，但打破神话才是最有趣的。”
-雷纳·彭宁顿，诺里奇大学
Seven Myths of Military History
“This brief, provocative, and accessible book offers snapshots of seven pernicious myths in military history that have been perpetrated on unsuspecting students, readers, moviegoers, game players, and politicians. It promotes awareness of how myths are created by ‘the spurious misuse and ignorance of history’ and how
misleading ideas about a military problem, as in asymmetric warfare, can lead to misguided solutions.
“Both scholarly and engaging, this book is an ideal addition to military history and historical methodology courses. In fact, it could be fruitfully used in any course that teaches critical thinking skills, including courses outside the discipline of history. Military history has a broad appeal to students, and there’s something here for everyone. From the so-called ‘Western Way of War’ to its sister-myth, technological determinism, to the ‘academic party game’ of once-faddish ‘Military Revolutions,’ the book shows that while myths about history may be fun, myth busting is the most fun of all.”
—Reina Pennington, Norwich University
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