Why some wars never end : the stories of the longest conflicts in history /
Cummins, Joseph.
Beverly, MA : Fair Winds Press,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Section 1. "Carthage must be destroyed!" : wars of empire -- The Greco-Persian Wars, 500-449 BCE : "Remember the Athenians" -- The Punic Wars, 264-146 BCE : the end of Carthage -- The Hundred Years' War, 1337-1453 : a perfect storm of warfare -- The Ottoman wars, 1354-1529 : "The great drum of conquest" -- section 2. As god is my witness : religious wars -- The Jewish-Roman wars, 66-135 CE : "Not so much as one soul" -- The troubles, 1966-1998 : by ballot and bullet -- The Arab-Israeli wars, 1948-ongoing : when war is a fact of life -- section 3. "As a fish swims in the sea" : guerilla wars -- The Seminole Wars, 1817-1858 : "A tribe which has long violated our rights" -- The Anglo-Afghan wars, 1839-1919 : "The great game" -- The Vietnamese wars, 1945-1975 : "The light at the end of the tunnel" -- section 4. "On the borders" : nationalist struggles -- The Russo-Polish wars, 1558-1667 : the battle for the Baltic and supremacy in Eastern Europe -- The Balkan wars, 1912-2001 : the field of the blackbirds -- section  5. "Cry havoc" : wars of chaos -- Guatemala civil wars, 1944-1996 : the bitter fruit of oppression -- The Sudanese Civil War, 1955-2005 : evil horsemen, snake venom, proxy war, and genocide.
Military history.
War