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Trim Size
5.5
x 8.5
Pages
424
ISBN
9780801864452
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction to the Johns Hopkins Edition, by Alex Roland
Introduction to the Original Edition
Part I: The Age of the Great Captain
Chapter 1. Land Warfare from the Renaissance to the Neoclassical
Preface
Introduction to the Johns Hopkins Edition, by Alex Roland
Introduction to the Original Edition
Part I: The Age of the Great Captain
Chapter 1. Land Warfare from the Renaissance to the Neoclassical Age (1415-1789)
Chapter 2. Naval Warfare from the Renaissance to the Neoclassical Age (1417-1789)
Chapter 3. The Anglo-American Military Tradition
Chapter 4. The French Revolution and Napoleon
Part II. The Industrial Revolution and War
Chapter 5. The First Half of Nineteenth Century (1815-1853)
Chapter 6. The Wars of the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1854-1871)
Chapter 7. The Years of Uneasy Peace (1871-1914)
Part III. The Age of Violence
Chapter 8. The First World War
Chapter 9. The Long Armistice (1919-1939)
Chapter 10. The Second World War
Epilogue
Index
