"Never studied much about the various wars?"

I don't know where you got this. Of course war was a main topic of world history.

But the lasting, tangible, visible part of history lies in art, architecture and craftmanship, which would include the monuments of war and warriors. The rest is in books, not just "history books", but in the great literature. I had 5 years of Latin Translated Julius Caesar, Virgil, Cicero, Ovid, Horace, Catullus, etc. 2 years of French