لماذا الحرب؟

In his book “Why the War?”, recently published by “Pelican Publishing”, the British historian Richard Overy** sets out from problematic questions: Why does the war pursue us with such stubborn insistence? Why, as soon as it ends, does it return even more fiercely, as if it were an ever-present shadow of the human being? How did not a single civilization escape it, no matter how sophisticated or powerful it was? Is it a nature inherent in humans, or the high price of the human condition? Richard Overy attempts to understand this phenomenon that is deeply rooted in human history through a book that constitutes a turning point in his academic career, which has always been characterized by rigor and focused on World War II. But this time, Overy does not search in the archives of armies or maps of fronts, but rather approaches war as a complex human act, in which natural and human sciences meet, from psychology to biology, passing through anthropology and ecology, and ending with archaeological osteology, as there are no written accounts, but fragments of skulls, old stab wounds, and outdated fractures.