Books and the British Army in the Age of the American Revolution
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press; Brand: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: Oct 25, 2010
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780807833780
Description: By examining the preferences of some forty-two officers who served between the War of the Spanish Succession and the French Revolution, Gruber shows that by the middle of the eighteenth century British officers were discriminating in their choices of books on war and, further, that their emerging preference for Continental books affected their understanding of warfare and their conduct of operations in the American Revolution. --from publisher description.