The Illusion of Victory: The True Costs of War

'The Illusion of Victory' demonstrates that most of the rewards of victory in modern warfare are either exaggerated or false. Ian Bickerton persuasively argues that as the rhetoric of victory becomes more hollow all countries must adopt creative new approaches to resolving disputes.

Ian Bickerton is a visiting senior research fellow in the School of History and Philosophy at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and the coauthor of ＂Unintended Consequences: The United States at War.＂