The Age of Battles"One of the most interesting, important, and ambitious books about the conduct, and perhaps the ultimate futility, of war." Gunther E. Rothenberg "[A] highly scholarly and wonderfully absorbing study." John Bayley, The London Review of Books "What Russell F. Weigley writes, the rest of us read. The Age of Battles is a persuasive reminder that even in the age of 'rational' warfare, one can honestly wonder why war seemed an unavoidable policy choice."