The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Modern Warfare - Couverture souple

Bell, David A.

 
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Synopsis

In this tour de force of interpretative history, David A. Bell explains that Napoleon's was the first 'total' war in European history, when warfare was transformed into the hideous spectacle that seems ever present today. With a historian's sharp eye for detail, Bell resurrects Napoleonic Europe and brings a new perspective to a period we thought we knew.

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À propos de l?auteur

David A. Bell teaches French history at Johns Hopkins University and is the author of Lawyers and Citizens, which won the Pinkney Prize of the Society for French Historical Studies, and the highly acclaimed The Cult of the Nation in France. He has contributed to many American and European publications including the New York Times, Time, the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books. He lives in Baltimore with his wife and two children.

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9780618919819: The First Total War: Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0618919813 ISBN 13 :  9780618919819
Editeur : Mariner Books, 2008
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