Why Don't We Learn From History?
B. H. Liddell Hart

چرا از تاریخ درس نمی گیریم ؟ کتابی ایست از سر هنری لیدل هارت ، مورخ و نظریه پرداز نظامی . او در این کتاب به بررسی این موضوع پرداخته که چرا انسان‌ها با وجود تاریخ و درس‌های آن ، اشتباهات خود را بارها و بارها تکرار می‌کنند . او این گونه استدلال کرده که عوامل متعددی مانند طبیعت سرشار از تعصبات و خطاهای......more

I give it around 3.5 stars. This book is about why we don't learn from the history of war. Liddell argues that the history of war is the most important of all history and should be studied more in depth by universities. It is easy to see as the world would be very different if someone else had won o......more

I was lucky enough to read this famous essay in an original 1944 edition. It starts off well: Liddell Hart gives a lot of interesting theories for why we seem not to learn from history, with a central tenet being that we aren’t very good at truthfully recording events in the first place. He then los......more

The first.... 85% of this book maybe, is worthy of five starts, the rest is rather.... odd. Nonetheless, I do recommend the first 85% to most most people, especially after the events of this year (2016). We need a refresher on what Hart set out to teach us in this book.......more

我把這本隨手扔在客廳的時候, 家人被它聳動的標題嚇到了...說來微妙, 其實原文書名超平淡的 (Why Don’t We Learn from History?) 中譯版不知道為何延伸成這麼一長串...... 這本跟它平淡的原文書名一樣, 性質上偏散文雜記, 記錄了李德哈特在戰史研究過程中, 一些瑣碎的思考. 軍事的部分還沒有政治(和外交等)的成份多, 有點像是茶餘飯後、老人家邊看電視新聞邊碎念的閒談。書本身沒有明確的口號, 更遑論激情的宣示, 但並不表示它缺乏深度. 相反的, 文句中可以看出由漫長的戰史研究、情感與現實面的搏鬥，帶出的或多或少妥協的滄桑感。 本書出版於1972年，但有點意外又不太......more