Reveries or Memoirs upon the Art of War: To Which Are Added Some Original Letters, upon Various Military Subjects, Wrote by the Count to the Late King ... Which Were (The West Point Military Library) [Hardcover]

Maurice Saxe (Author), Maurice Comte de Saxe (Author)

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Text: English, French (translation)

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• Hardcover: 195 pages
• Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group; First Thus edition (June 1957)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0837150213
• ISBN-13: 978-0837150215
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Military Radical, December 28, 1999

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This review is from: Reveries or Memoirs upon the Art of War: To Which Are Added Some Original Letters, upon Various Military Subjects, Wrote by the Count to the Late King ... Which Were (The West Point Military Library) (Hardcover)

De Saxe wrote this book as a protest and a call for reform. "War," he wrote, "is a science covered with shadows in whose obscurity one cannot move with an assured step." He called for reforms in organization, discipline and strategy required to build effective armies. De Saxe is one of the great links between Vegetius and Napoleon. Many of his ideas now commonplace, were considered absurd in his own time. No one can understand the evolution of armies who has not read his works.

From the introduction of "My Reveries Upon the Art of War