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...a scholarly history of insurgency. The Bookseller Mr Boot offers a timely reminder to politicians and generals of the hard-earned lessons of history. The Economist Mr Boot's impressive work of military history is destined to be the classic account of what may be the oldest as well as the hardest form of war. The Wall Street Journal ...a cool and balanced account ranging from prehistory through ancient China to the Ku Klux Klan...to Hezbollah, Hamas and Chechnya. New Statesman ...encyclopedic history of guerrilla warfare... Financial Times Boot has produced an important book that is sure to stand the test of time on this broad subject. The Jerusalem Post

The most definitive and comprehensive work to date on the dominant form of warfare of our times. A must read for scholars, military and government professionals and a fascinating journey for the general public. --General (ret.) Jack Keane, former Army Vice Chi

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Max Boot, historian and foreign-policy analyst, is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a columnist for the Washington Post. His New York Times bestseller The Road Not Taken was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography.

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