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The First Total War - Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It (Paperback)
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The First Total War - Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It (Paperback)
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The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total
war," but as the historian David Bell argues in this landmark work,
the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the age of Napoleon.
Bell takes us from campaigns of "extermination" in the blood-soaked
fields of western France to savage street fighting in ruined
Spanish cities to central European battlefields where tens of
thousands died in a single day. Between 1792 and 1815, Europe
plunged into an abyss of destruction, and our modern attitudes
toward war were born. Ever since, the dream of perpetual peace and
the nightmare of total war have been bound tightly together in the
Western world--where "wars of liberation," such as the one in Iraq,
can degenerate into gruesome guerrilla conflict.
With a historian's keen insight and a journalist's flair for
detail, Bell exposes the surprising parallels between Napoleon's
day and our own in a book that is as timely and important as it is
unforgettable.
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