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Synopsis
One of the most interesting, important, and ambitious books about the conduct, and perhaps the ultimate futility, of war." ―Gunther E. Rothenberg
[A] highly scholarly and wonderfully absorbing study." ―John Bayley, The London Review of Books
What Russell F. Weigley writes, the rest of us read. The Age of Battles is a persuasive reminder that even in the age of ‘rational’ warfare, one can honestly wonder why war seemed an unavoidable policy choice." ―Allan R. Millett, The Journal of American History
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A Main Selection of the History Book Club.
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From Gustavus Adolphus's 1631 victory at Breitenfeld in the Thirty Years War to Napoleon's 1815 defeat at Waterloo, the primary instrument of military strategy was the grand-scale battle waged with the goal of winning a political as well as military decision. In this first-class study of the battles of Gustavus, Charles II, Louis XIV, Marlborough, Nelson, Napoleon and Wellington, Weigley ( The American Way of War ) brings into sharp focus the irony that warfare throughout the period was most often a matter of prolonged, indecisive struggle that expressed a bankruptcy of national policy. The book traces the development of the professional officer class during the two-century era and the evolution of command and control techniques in the field. Weigley discusses the limitation of violence in battle through the restraints of international law and custom, and analyzes the surprising fact that military tactics, technology and organization remained essentially the same from Breitenfeld to Waterloo. History Book Club main selection.
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- PublisherPimlico, London
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0712658564
- ISBN 13 9780712658560
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages579
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