Reveries Or Memoirs Concerning The Art Of War By Maurice Count De Saxe Marshal General Of The Armies Of France To Which Is Annexed His Treatise Concerning Legions Or A Plan For New Modelling The French Armies Illustrated With Copper Plates Together With Letters On Various Military Subjects Wrote By The Marshal To Several Eminent Persons And The Authors Reflections On The Propagation Of The Human Species Translated From The French To Which Is Prefixed An Account Of The Life Of The Author
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Reveries, Or, Memoirs Concerning the Art of War. By Maurice Count de Saxe, Marshal-General of the Armies of France. To which is Annexed, His Treatise Concerning Legions ; Or, a Plan for New-modelling the French Armies. Illustrated with Copper-plates. Together with Letters on Various Military Subjects, Wrote by the Marshal to Several Eminent Persons ; And, The Author's Reflections on the Propagation of the Human Species. Translated from the French. To which is Prefixed an Account of the Life of the Author
| Author | : Maurice comte de Saxe |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 1759 |
| Genre | : Military art and science |
| ISBN | : |
Military Experience in the Age of Reason
| Author | : Christopher Duffy |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 526 |
| Release | : 2005-12-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1135794588 |
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.
Prominent Families of New York
| Author | : Lyman Horace Weeks |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 64 |
| Release | : 1898 |
| Genre | : New York (N.Y.) |
| ISBN | : |
Of Arms and Men
| Author | : Robert L. O'Connell |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 378 |
| Release | : 1990-04-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199878900 |
The appearance of the crossbow on the European battle field in A.D. 1100 as the weapon of choice for shooting down knights threatened the status quo of medieval chivalric fighting techniques. By 1139 the Church had intervened, outlawing the use of the crossbow among Christians. With this edict, arms control was born. As Robert L. O'Connell reveals in this vividly written history of weapons in Western culture, that first attempt at an arms control measure characterizes the complex and often paradoxical relationship between men and arms throughout the centuries. In a sweeping narrative that ranges from prehistoric times to the nuclear age, O'Connell demonstrates how social and economic conditions determine the types of weapons and the tactics used in warfare and how, in turn, innovations in weapons technology often undercut social values. He describes, for instance, how the invention of the gun required a redefinition of courage from aggressive ferocity to calmness under fire; and how the machine gun in World War I so overthrew traditional notions of combat that Lord Kitchener exclaimed, "This isn't war!" The technology unleashed during the Great War radically altered our perceptions of ourselves, as these new weapons made human qualities almost irrelevant in combat. With the invention of the atomic bomb, humanity itself became subservient to the weapons it had produced. Of Arms and Men brilliantly integrates the evolution of politics, weapons, strategy, and tactics into a coherent narrative, one spiced with striking portraits of men in combat and penetrating insights into why men go to war.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose
| Author | : Henry Cabot Lodge |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 1909 |
| Genre | : American literature |
| ISBN | : |
Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe
| Author | : Sander Govaerts |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2021-04-30 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781641893985 |
Using the ecosystem concept as his starting point, the author examines the complex relationship between premodern armed forces and their environment at three levels: landscapes, living beings, and diseases. The study focuses on Europe's Meuse Region, well-known among historians of war as a battleground between France and Germany. By analyzing soldiers' long-term interactions with nature, this book engages with current debates about the ecological impact of the military, and provides new impetus for contemporary armed forces to make greater effort to reduce their environmental footprint.
Fighting for a living
| Author | : Erik-Jan Zürcher |
| Publisher | : Amsterdam University Press |
| Total Pages | : 690 |
| Release | : 2015-12-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9048517257 |
The military, in one form or another, are always part of the picture. This unique and compelling study investigates the circumstances that have produced starkly different systems of recruiting and employing soldiers in different parts of the globe over the last 500 years, on the basis of case studies from Europe, Africa, America, the Middle East and Asia. The authors, including Robert Johnson, Frank Tallett and Gilles Weinstein, conduct an international comparison of military service and warfare as forms of labour, and the soldiers as workers. This is the first study to undertake a systematic comparative analysis of military labour, addressing two distinct, and normally quite separate, communities: labour historians and military historians.
The Enemy at the Gate
| Author | : Andrew Wheatcroft |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 2009-11-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1409086828 |
In 1683, two empires - the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna - came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege of Vienna. Within the city walls the choice of resistance over surrender to the largest army ever assembled by the Turks created an all-or-nothing scenario: every last survivor would be enslaved or ruthlessly slaughtered. The Turks had set their sights on taking Vienna, the city they had long called 'The Golden Apple' since their first siege of the city in 1529. Both sides remained resolute, sustained by hatred of their age-old enemy, certain that their victory would be won by the grace of God. Eastern invaders had always threatened the West: Huns, Mongols, Goths, Visigoths, Vandals and many others. The Western fears of the East were vivid and powerful and, in their new eyes, the Turks always appeared the sole aggressors. Andrew Wheatcroft's extraordinary book shows that this belief is a grievous oversimplification: during the 400 year struggle for domination, the West took the offensive just as often as the East. As modern Turkey seeks to re-orient its relationship with Europe, a new generation of politicians is exploiting the residual fears and tensions between East and West to hamper this change. The Enemy at the Gate provides a timely and masterful account of this most complex and epic of conflicts.
