The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It Bell David A.
The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It Bell David A. The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David Bell argues…
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The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It Bell David A.
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 era of muskets, cannons, and sailing ships--in the age of Napoleon.In a sweeping, evocative narrative, 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. In the eighteenth century, educated Europeans thought war was disappearing from the civilized world. Between 1792 and 1815, Europe plunged into an abyss of destruction.It was during this time, Bell argues, that our modern attitudes toward war were born.
So when large-scale conflict broke out during the French Revolution, they could not resist treating it as "the
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