Warfare in the Western World: Military Operations from 1600 to 1871, Volume I 1st Edition
by
Robert Doughty
(Author),
Ira Gruber
(Author),
Roy Flint
(Author),
Mark Grimsley
(Author),
George Herring
(Author)
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ISBN-13: 978-0669209396
ISBN-10: 0669209392
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Authoritative and concise, Warfare in the Western World concentrates on selected campaigns and battles, showing how political and military leaders in the West have used armies to wage war effectively over the last four centuries. The text moves through the centuries, discussing how operational developments and technological improvements eventually led to the concept of total war, first approached in the American Civil War and culminating in the twentieth century's two world wars.
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Brig. Gen. Robert A. Doughty, USA (Ret.), is a graduate of West Point, former chair of its history department, and a prize-winning military historian. He is the author of Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War. He lives in Louisiana.
Ira D. Gruber is Harris Masterson, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at Rice University. From 1966 to 2009 he taught courses in early American and military history at Rice, the U.S. Military Academy, and the U.S. Army Staff College.
George C. Herring is an Alumni Professor of History at the University of Kentucky.
Ira D. Gruber is Harris Masterson, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at Rice University. From 1966 to 2009 he taught courses in early American and military history at Rice, the U.S. Military Academy, and the U.S. Army Staff College.
George C. Herring is an Alumni Professor of History at the University of Kentucky.
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- Publisher : Cengage Learning; 1st edition (January 2, 1995)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 560 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0669209392
- ISBN-13 : 978-0669209396
- Item Weight : 2.15 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.75 x 1 x 9.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,112,292 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book is the result of the collaboration of a number of the best military historians in the US today, including Mark Grimsley, George Herring, John Lynn, and many others, skilfully tied together by the editors (who are also major contributors), Professor Ira Gruber of Rice University and Colonel Robert A. Doughty of West Point. The result is an outstanding survey of modern Western military history designed for undergraduate history courses, but easily accessible to the general reader as well. The prose is exceptionally clear and the ideas lucidly presented. These two volumes are definitely focussed on the operational level of the "military art" (i.e. on the planning and conduct of campaigns), with some treatment also of strategy, tactics, and technology, but very litte material on "war and society" subjects (i.e. how wars and military developments have affected society and vice-versa). This makes it especially useful for ROTC military history classes, but it is also a very good introduction to the "sharp end" of military history for scholars or students whose main interests lie in the effects of war, rather than its conduct.
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