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The age of battles: the quest for decisive warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo

Russell Frank Weigley
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This book studies the battles of Gustavus, Charles II, Louis XIV, Marlborough, Nelson, Napoleon and Wellington during the period between 1631 and 1815.
  • Frontmatter
  • INTRODUCTION (page xi)
  • NOTE ON DATES (page xix)
  • Part One THE PROFESSION OF OFFICERSHIP AND THE BIRTH OF MODERN WAR
    • CHAPTER ONE The Return of the Legions: Gustavus Adolphus and Breitenfeld (page 3)
    • CHAPTER TWO The Limits of the New Legions: Lützen and After (page 24)
    • CHAPTER THREE Under the Lily Banners: Rocroi (page 37)
    • CHAPTER FOUR The Army of the Sun King (page 45)
    • CHAPTER FIVE Marlborough's Battles: Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, and Malplaquet (page 73)
    • CHAPTER SIX The Emergence of the Great Powers of Eastern Europe (page 105)
    • CHAPTER SEVEN The Rise of Naval Power (page 131)
  • Part Two THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: THE CLASSICAL EPOCH OF MODERN WAR
    • CHAPTER EIGHT The Battles of Frederick the Great (page 167)
    • CHAPTER NINE The French and British Armed Forces from the Rhine to the St. Lawrence (page 196)
    • CHAPTER TEN Toward Wars of Nations: The War of American Independence (page 232)
    • CHAPTER ELEVEN Prelude to Revolution (page 256)
  • Part Three THUNDERSTROKES OF BATTLE: THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY AND NAPOLEONIC WARS
    • CHAPTER TWELVE The French Revolution: Transformation and Continuity in War (page 279)
    • CHAPTER THIRTEEN Sea Power and Empire (page 313)
    • CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Climax of Napoleonic War: To Austerlitz and Jena-Auerstädt (page 354)
    • CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Gradual Eclipse of the Battle of Annihilation; The Rise of the War of Attrition (page 399)
    • CHAPTER SIXTEEN Campaigns of Exhaustion and Attrition (page 435)
    • CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Resurgence of Military Professionalism (page 457)
    • CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Downfall of Genius (page 483)
    • CHAPTER NINETEEN The End of an Age: Waterloo (page 513)
    • CHAPTER TWENTY On the Future of War (page 536)
  • BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES (page 545)
  • INDEX (page 559)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAH 79.3 (Dec. 1992): 1132-1133 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2080822
JMH 65.4 (Dec. 1993): 820-822 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2124546
HTE 38.4 (Aug. 2005): 563-564 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30036735
JMiH 56.2 (Apr. 1992): 294-295 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1985802
PE 58.4 (Winter 1993/1994): 1102-1103 http://www.jstor.org/stable/42677059
ENHR 109.434 (Nov. 1994): 1278-1279 http://www.jstor.org/stable/573930
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Published: 2004
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780253363800 (hardcover)
  • 9780253217073 (paper)
Subject
  • Military History
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