"The history of war is the history of humankind," says Robert Cowley, founding editor of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History and editor of Experience of War, a notable anthology of articles from the first four years of an unusual magazine.The 51 articles in Experience of War represent an extraordinary range of subject matter--from the latest theories about the origins of war to the way in which the recent Gulf crisis has altered its informal (but binding) rules. Experience of War recreates the feel of combat, whether it is the panic of Roman soldiers trapped at Cannae, the edgy determination of British tunnelers at Ypres racing to blow up an underground mine before they themselves are blown up, or the impressions of Israeli pilots sweeping down on Egyptian airfields in the surprise strikes of 1967.Experience of War examines popular myths and legends. Did the Amazons actually exist? (Maybe.) Can the Great Wall of China be seen from the moon? (No.) It is filled with unexpected information: for instance, the Korean navy sailed the first ironclads, more than three centuries before the Monitor and the Merrimac. Its stories are as unusual as they are intriguing: the secret intelligence network that delivered the German naval codes to the British in 1915, Rod Serling and John Ford's Pentagon war games, and the truth about the battleship Potemkin will be revealed inside these covers.MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History has been in existence for only four years and already it has won prizes for its editorial excellence and praise for its scholarly content. Assembled here are some of the memorable articles from its pages, by such distinguished writers and military historians as John Keegan, James M. McPherson, Michael Howard, Geoffrey C. Ward, Paul Fussell, Ted Morgan, and William McNeill. Read Less