Vauban Under Siege: Engineering Efficiency and Martial Vigor in the War of the Spanish Succession - Couverture rigide

Ostwald, Jamel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004154892 ISBN 13 : 9789004154896

Editeur : Brill, 2006

Synopsis

Winner of the 2009 Distinguished Book Award of the Society for Military History

Vauban under Siege is the first systematic comparison of the theory of Vaubanian siegecraft with its reality. It places Vauban's siege accomplishments back into their broader context, highlighting his continuation of the quest for ever-greater efficiency pursued by a century of military engineers. Based on a comprehensive inventory of sieges in the War of the Spanish Succession, it describes how both French and Allied military officers rejected this efficiency paradigm and embraced instead vigorous brute force tactics. Ignoring their over-worked and under-compensated engineers at key points, generals chose to save precious campaign time by sacrificing their soldiers' lives in siege after siege. This early modern cult of the offensive has influenced the Western way of war ever since.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jamel M. Ostwald, Ph.D. (2002) in History, Ohio State University, is Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Connecticut State University. His published articles have focused on the operational context of battles and siege tactics in the age of Louis XIV.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004154892
• ISBN 13: 9789004154896
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 408
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