The Age of Battles
Subtitle: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: April 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780253217073
Subjects: Battles & campaigns; History of specific subjects; World history; Military - General; History; History - Military / War; Military
First sentence: The grand-scale battle, with tens of thousands of soldiers fighting, cursing, trembling, falling, screaming in agony, dying, all in a spectacle covering an amphitheater-like field-this dramatic epitome of war is the chief source of the enduring fascination of military history.