What is War?

Eduard Altarriba is a graphic designer and illustrator. He runs Alababalà, a studio producing games, exhibitions, animation, apps and practical and fun workbooks for children. He has illustrated a number of books published by GMC Publications including, Discovering Architecture, Discovering Energy, My First Book of Electromagnetism, My First Book of Microbes, My First Book of Quantum Physics, My First Book of Relativity, My First Book of the Cosmos, What is War? and Migrants. Eduard lives in Barcelona, Spain.

What is war? It is perhaps a sad indictment of our world that this is a question we still have to face this question from our children, and this book attempts to address the many complexities that war brings. ...We can look at over-arching themes of power, revolution and propaganda, or explore more focused topics such as the history of war, military powers, or humanitarian law. This book does not talk down to children, detailing how war can become a business through the employment of mercenaries or involvement of arms dealers. ...this book would be an excellent addition to Y6 classes, and would comfortably support Key Stage 3 students in their learning as well.

• Conflict 4Who's who 6International actors 7Power 8Business 9Arms 10Technology 12War in history 14Just war 16International humanitarian law 17Revolution 18War between states 20The Cold War 22Missiles 23Military power 24NATO and the Warsaw Pact 26The end of the war between states? 27Types of modern warfare 28Military interventions 29How does a war end? 30Peace and mediation 31Consequences 32Report: North Korea 34Dossier: The war in Ukraine 35