Rochester
Rochester

Author: Jenny Marsh Parker

Publisher: Rochester, N.Y. : Scrantom, Wetmore

Published: 1884

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13:

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Military Experience in the Age of Reason
Military Experience in the Age of Reason

Author: Christopher Duffy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-12-20

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 1135794588

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First published in 1987. War in the 18th century was a bloody business. A line of infantry would slowly march, to the beat of a drum, into a hail of enemy fire. Whole ranks would be wiped out by cannon fire and musketry. Christopher Duffy's investigates the brutalities of the battlefield and also traces the lives of the officer to the soldier from the formative conditions of their earliest years to their violent deaths or retirement, and shows that, below their well-ordered exteriors, the armies of the Age of Reason underwent a revolutionary change from medieval to modern structures and ways of thinking.

European Armies and the Conduct of War
European Armies and the Conduct of War

Author: Hew Strachan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-07-28

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1134898207

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Discussing the key issues of modern warfare, Hew Strachan’s work examines the theory and practice of land warfare in Europe since 1700. Looking at warfare in the context of social and political change, Dr. Strachan interprets his subject matter as widely as possible, and European Armies and the Conduct of War considers the roles of air power and the impact of the United States on European military developments. Through the eyes of the major theorists of the day, European Armies examines: * how the social and political influences which shape armies, also mould the attitude of those armies to warfare * the story of techicnal innovation * the mounting pace of industrialization and its impact of warfare. Recent military history has tended to focus on the relationship between armies and society and there has been much original research on the subject of the conduct of war. This book brings these approaches together, providing information and insight vital to the study of this fascinating era.