The Penguin Atlas of War and Peace, Revised and Updated Edition

By Dan Smith

Book Overview

This fascinating atlas takes a visual approach to explaining the state of war and peace in the beginning of the twenty-first century. Packed with expert data analysis and essential political and historical background, it covers the causes of war; the costs of war; and trends in peace, from Afghanistan to Northern Ireland to Kosovo to the Middle East; as well as topics such as international terrorism, the arms trade, and NATO and the United Nations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0142002941
• ISBN13: 9780142002940
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Penguin
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 0.5" x 7.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

Read one nonfiction book this year (and make it this one)

This is the most enjoyable and concise way to get a basic primer of world events and even all of recent history. This should replace textbooks in high schools. The graphics are compelling and break down all sorts of conflicts. The writing is brief, fair, and brutally honest. If I can look at two pages of colorful maps and suddenly understand the ten-year Yugoslav conflict, this is a well-done book.

Dramatic Graphics of Global Condition

Together with the State of the World Atlas, this book ranks as one of the very best and most useful compilations of what I call "strategic generalizations", but with the very great added value of being presented in a graphical form that is easy to understand. As the international media becomes less and less useful as a means of appreciating how global conditions threaten our own internal security and prosperity, guide books like this one become all the more valuable to citizens and their elected representatives. This is an essential desk reference for every student striving to learn how to think, not just memorize, and for every adult who cares to understand just how unstable and diminishing is the world we are leaving to our children. The book is *not* out-of-date in 2000, but we would all benefit from a new edition coming out that might expand on the core value of the 1997 edition.