Military Experience in the Age of Reason

Military Experience in the Age of Reason

by Christopher Duffy
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 20/12/2005

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First published in 1987. War in the 18th century was a bloody business. A line of infantry would slowly march, to the beat of a drum, into a hail of enemy fire. Whole ranks would be wiped out by cannon fire and musketry. Christopher Duffy's investigates the brutalities of the battlefield and also traces the lives of the officer to the soldier from the formative conditions of their earliest years to their violent deaths or retirement, and shows that, below their well-ordered exteriors, the armies of the Age of Reason underwent a revolutionary change from medieval to modern structures and ways of thinking.

ISBN:
9781135794583
9781135794583
Category:
General & world history
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
20-12-2005
Language:
English
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Christopher Duffy

Christopher Duffy is the 'acclaimed and highly-regarded doyen of eighteenth-century military history' (The Herald).

He was a founder member of the British Commission for Military History and the Scottish Battlefields Trust. He is currently a vice-president of the Military History Society of Ireland and Chairman of the 1745 Association.

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