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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
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 age of Napoleon. Bell takes us from campaigns of "extermination" in the blood-soaked fields of western France to savage street fighting in ruined Spanish cities to c...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780618919819
ISBN-10: 0618919813
Publication Date: 1/16/2008
Pages: 432
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Publisher: Mariner Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: 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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