The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo

by RussellF.Weigley (Author)

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  2004

  $7.48

  One of the most interesting, important, and ambitious books about the conduct, and perhaps the ultimate futility, of war. -Gunther E. Rothenberg [A] highly scholarly and wonderfully absorbing study. -John Bayley, The London Review of Books What Russell F. Weigley writes, the rest of us read. The Age of Battles is a persuasive reminder that even in the age of 'rational' warfare, one can honestly wonder why war seemed an unavoidable policy choice. -Allan R. Millett, The Journal of American History

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  Paperback
  2004

  $43.74

  One of the most interesting, important, and ambitious books about the conduct, and perhaps the ultimate futility, of war. -Gunther E. Rothenberg [A] highly scholarly and wonderfully absorbing study. -John Bayley, The London Review of Books What Russell F. Weigley writes, the rest of us read. The Age of Battles is a persuasive reminder that even in the age of 'rational' warfare, one can honestly wonder why war seemed an unavoidable policy choice. -Allan R. Millett, The Journal of American History