![]() ![]() ![]() The depth and the extent of information make this work a recommended addition to academic and large public libraries. The extensive index contains people, forts, ships, nations, battles, weapons, and conflicts. Primary sources used in his research included government documents, official reports, after-action reports, statistical summaries from ministries and departments of war and defense, and other archival material. The bibliography is a selection of works the author found to be the most useful and informative. Clodfelter chose the actions that he considered to be of significance for each conflict and used the most authoritative sources available for statistics, though he admits that every statistic in the work could be legitimately questioned, because an absolute count of casualties rarely exists for any conflict. The major aim of the work “is to present a record of casualties of warfare in the last five centuries” by looking at “the method, manner, and moment of deaths and disablements.” The work includes international wars, civil wars, internationalized civil wars, limited wars, unlimited wars, border wars, mini wars, riots, revolutions, massacres, bloodbaths, and pogroms. Major conflicts have a summary of battles and casualties at the end of the entry. Entries, which range from one paragraph to 107 pages in length (the section on World War II), contain historical and statistical information on each conflict. Correspondingly, the number of entries has increased to 1,165, and the number of bibliographic citations has increased to 526. The format has remained the same: content is arranged by centuries and then chronologically within geographic regions. Expanding on the two previous editions, the third edition of Warfare and Armed Conflicts covers the years 1494–2007, 13 more years than the second edition (2002), which had information for 1500–2000, and 140 more years than the first edition (1992), which covered 1618–1991. ![]()
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