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An Instinct for War : Scenes from the Battlefields of History.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2005Copyright date: ©2005Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (414 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674043930
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: An Instinct for WarDDC classification:
  • 813/.6
LOC classification:
  • PS3619
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1 A Sword Is Drawn -- 2 The Testament -- 3 The Lesson -- 4 Scoundrel -- 5 La Noche Triste -- 6 Galen's Proof -- 7 In Winter Quarters -- 8 The Very Last Civil War Historian -- 9 Human Rain -- 10 Rain Stops Play -- 11 The Final War -- 12 At the Fair -- 13 The Discovery of Kansas.
Summary: Spiller locates a dozen turning points in the history of warfare that altered our understanding of war and its pursuit. We are conducted through profound moments by the voices of those who witnessed them and are given a graphic understanding of war, the devastating choices, the means by which battles are decided, and the enormous price exacted.
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Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1 A Sword Is Drawn -- 2 The Testament -- 3 The Lesson -- 4 Scoundrel -- 5 La Noche Triste -- 6 Galen's Proof -- 7 In Winter Quarters -- 8 The Very Last Civil War Historian -- 9 Human Rain -- 10 Rain Stops Play -- 11 The Final War -- 12 At the Fair -- 13 The Discovery of Kansas.

Spiller locates a dozen turning points in the history of warfare that altered our understanding of war and its pursuit. We are conducted through profound moments by the voices of those who witnessed them and are given a graphic understanding of war, the devastating choices, the means by which battles are decided, and the enormous price exacted.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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