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The First Total War : Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Modern Warfare

The First Total War : Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Modern Warfare

The First Total War : Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Modern Warfare
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The First Total War : Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Modern Warfare

by Bell, David A

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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

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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 central European battlefields where tens of thousands died in a single day. Between 1792 and 1815, Europe plunged into an abyss of destruction, and our modern attitudes toward war were born. Ever since, the dream of perpetual peace and the nightmare of total war have been bound tightly together in the Western world—where “wars of liberation,” such as the one in Iraq, can degenerate into gruesome guerrilla conflict. With a historian’s keen insight and a journalist’s flair for detail, Bell exposes the surprising parallels between Napoleon’s day and our own in a book that is as timely and important as it is unforgettable.

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Title
The First Total War : Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Modern Warfare
Author
Bell, David A
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
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Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0747579628
ISBN 13
9780747579625
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Place of Publication
London United Kingdom
This edition first published
2008

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