Military Experience in the Age of Reason

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-99586-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duffy, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 The armies of the Enlightenment 1 Military Europe 2 The officer class 3 The private soldier 4 Generals and armies Part II War II, 5 The campaign 6 The battle 7 On the wilder fringes 8 The march of the siege Part III The military experience in context and perspective 9 Land war and the experience of civilian society 10 The death of a memory 11 Summary and conclusions, Appendix Principal wars and campaigns

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Duffy