The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Mariner BooksISBN-13:9780618919819ISBN-10:618919813UPC:9780618919819Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Military, Europe, Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:Nuclear Warfare, France, Napoleonic WarsSize:8.00 x 5.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCAH0P9CTD
The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It
"A mesmerizing account that illuminates not just the Napoleonic wars but all of modern history . . . It reads like a novel" (Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, UCLA).
The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the era of muskets, cannons,...
The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the era of muskets, cannons,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Mariner BooksISBN-13:9780618919819ISBN-10:618919813UPC:9780618919819Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Military, Europe, Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:Nuclear Warfare, France, Napoleonic WarsSize:8.00 x 5.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCAH0P9CTD
Bell, David A.: - 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 Channel's program on the French Revolution.
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