Military Experience in the Age of Reason
Title | Military Experience in the Age of Reason PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Duffy |
Publisher | Routledge |
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.
The Military Experience in the Age of Reason
Title | The Military Experience in the Age of Reason PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Duffy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Enlightenment |
ISBN |
Military Experience in the Age of Reason
Title | Military Experience in the Age of Reason PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Duffy |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2005-12-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135794596 |
First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Military Enlightenment
Title | The Military Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Christy L. Pichichero |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2017-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1501712292 |
The Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces from Louis XIV to Napoleon. Christy Pichichero makes a striking discovery: the Geneva Conventions, post-traumatic stress disorder, the military "band of brothers," and soldierly heroism all found their antecedents in the eighteenth-century French armed forces. Readers of The Military Enlightenment will be startled to learn of the many ways in which French military officers, administrators, and medical personnel advanced ideas of human and political rights, military psychology, and social justice.
The Face of Battle
Title | The Face of Battle PDF eBook |
Author | John Keegan |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 1983-01-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1440673993 |
John Keegan's groundbreaking portrayal of the common soldier in the heat of battle -- a masterpiece that explores the physical and mental aspects of warfare The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the "point of maximum danger." Without the myth-making elements of rhetoric and xenophobia, and breaking away from the stylized format of battle descriptions, John Keegan has written what is probably the definitive model for military historians. And in his scrupulous reassessment of three battles representative of three different time periods, he manages to convey what the experience of combat meant for the participants, whether they were facing the arrow cloud at the battle of Agincourt, the musket balls at Waterloo, or the steel rain of the Somme. The Face of Battle is a companion volume to John Keegan's classic study of the individual soldier, The Mask of Command: together they form a masterpiece of military and human history.
On War
Title | On War PDF eBook |
Author | Carl von Clausewitz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Military art and science |
ISBN |
Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon
Title | Tactics and the Experience of Battle in the Age of Napoleon PDF eBook |
Author | Rory Muir |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 502 |
Release | 2008-10-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300147686 |
This historical study of Napoleonic battles and tactics examines firsthand accounts from soldiers’ memoirs, diaries, and letters: “A major work” (David Seymour, Military Illustrated). In this illuminating volume, historian Rory Muir explores what actually happened in battle during the Napoleonic Wars, putting special focus on how the participants’ feelings and reactions influenced the outcome. Looking at the immediate dynamics of combat, Muir sheds new light on how Napoleon’s tactics worked. This analysis is enhanced with vivid accounts of those who were there—the frightened foot soldier, the general in command, the young cavalry officer whose boils made it impossible to ride, and the smartly dressed aide-de-camp, tripped up by his voluminous pantaloons. Muir considers the interaction of artillery, infantry, and cavalry; the role of the general, subordinate commanders, staff officers, and aides; morale, esprit de corps, soldiers’ attitudes toward death and feelings about the enemy; the plight of the wounded; the difficulty of surrendering; and the way victories were finally decided. He discusses the mechanics of musketry, artillery, and cavalry charges and shows how they influenced the morale, discipline, and resolution of the opposing armies. "Muir has filled an important gap in the study of the Napoleonic era."—Library Journal