Christopher Duffy

Military Experience in the Age of Reason

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781138995864
• ISBN-10: 113899586X
• Artikelnr.: 44733073

Autorenporträt

Christopher Duffy

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 The armies of the Enlightenment 1 Military Europe 2 The officer
class 3 The private soldier 4 Generals and armies Part II War II, 5 The
campaign 6 The battle 7 On the wilder fringes 8 The march of the siege Part
III The military experience in context and perspective 9 Land war and the
experience of civilian society 10 The death of a memory 11 Summary and
conclusions, Appendix Principal wars and campaigns