Warfare in the Western World, 1882-1975In this companion volume to Western Warfare, 1775 1882, Jeremy Black takes his analysis of modern warfare into the 20th century. A distinctive feature of the author's approach is the coverage of both land and naval warfare as well as conflict within the West and between Western and non Western powers. Beginning with the British conquest of Egypt in 1882, Black goes on to examine the Spanish American War of 1898, the Boer War, and the Balkan conflicts