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The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
The First Total War Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
Author: David A. Bell
World War I has been called "the war to end all wars", the first time combatants were mobilized on a massive scale to ruthlessly destroy an enemy. But as David Bell argues in this tour de force of interpretive history, the Great War was not, in fact, the first total war. For this, we need to travel back to the era of muskets and sailing ships, t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780618349654
ISBN-10: 0618349650
Publication Date: 1/12/2007
Pages: 320
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Book Type: Hardcover
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Interesting book, I think he might have tried to cover too much. It's sort of a biography of Napolean, and it attempts to go into the thinking of the philosophers about the nature of war, and how that affected the conduct of the various wars from 1788-1815.


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