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The Allure of Battle - A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost (Hardcover)
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The Allure of Battle - A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost (Hardcover)
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Cathal Nolan's The Allure of Battle shows that while wars have
shaped the history of the modern world, their outcomes are decided
by many other factors. The book argues that major battles are not
decisive to the outcome of wars; rather, wars depend on longer-term
attrition in which the side that wins gradually and remorselessly
overwhelms the other with larger arsenals and greater reserves of
manpower. To illustrate his argument, Nolan draws on conflicts
throughout the world and throughout history (aside from classical
or medieval warfare, which, he argues, had greatly different
characters from each other and from early modern and modern
warfare). The Allure of Battle systematically examines a series of
great battles, each described in the standard literature as the
"turning pointof the war in which they occurred. It asks how they
actually fit in the histories of those wars and military history
more generally. In each case Nolan will show that even huge and
important battles, which are widely considered to have been
decisive, actually and mainly contributed to victory or defeat by
compressing attrition, which is what in the end led to the outcome
of each and every war. He will also illustrate how the character of
longer wars of attrition also fundamentally shaped extended periods
of postwar peace, that military, moral, and materiel exhaustion
rather than battlefield supremacy per se was determinative. Nolan
is not proposing to have discovered linear or universal laws about
modern military history, nor is he attempting a "theory of war. "
His point is to look at battles within the context of the wider
conflict in which they took place. The result will be an
accessible, provocative, and even entertaining book that will
reflect fresh thinking in the historical community about the
conduct of warfare in terms that will appreciated by a wider
readership. The Allure of Battle is an accessible, provocative, and
entertaining book that illuminates fresh debate in the historical
community about the conduct of warfare in terms that readers of
military history will appreciate.
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