The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe And the Birth of Warfare As We Know It. This item is unavailable.
645 ratings by Goodreads
Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Dallas
5-star seller
AbeBooks seller since July 2, 2009
Unavailable
Hardcover
Condition: Used - Good
US$ 8.47
Item description from seller
Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Seller Inventory # G0618349650I3N01
- Title
- The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe And the Birth of Warfare As We Know It
- Author
- David A. Bell
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0618349650
- ISBN 13
- 9780618349654
- Item weight
- 1.56 pounds
A distinguished historian describes how the Enlightenment and the French Revolution led to the first total war in history during the age of Napoleon, when such embodiments of modern-day warfare--conscription, guerrilla warfare, unconditional surrender, disregard for the rules of combat, civilian mobilization, and more--made their first appearance.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
David A. Bell is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins and a contributing editor for the New Republic. A graduate of Harvard College, he completed his Ph.D. at Princeton and taught for several years at Yale. Bell has written for the New York Times, Slate, and Time, and was featured on the History Channels program on the French Revolution.
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Search results for The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe And the Birth of Warfare As We Know It
There are 9 more copies of this bookView all results