The age of battles : the quest for decisive warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo /
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[1991]
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Table of Contents:
- The return of the legions : Gustavus Adolphus and Breitenfeld
- The limits of the new legions : Lützen and after
- Under the lily banners : Rocroi
- The army of the Sun King
- Marlborough's battles : Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, and Malplaquet
- The emergence of the great powers of Eastern Europe
- The rise of naval power
- The battles of Frederick the Great
- The French and British armed forces from the Rhine to the St. Lawrence
- Toward wars of nations : the war of American independence
- Prelude to revolution
- The French Revolution : transformation and continuity in war
- Sea power and empire
- The climax of Napoleonic war : to Austerlitz and Jena-Auerstädt
- The gradual eclipse of the battle of annihilation : the rise of the war of attrition
- Campaigns of exhaustion and attrition
- The resurgence of military professionalism
- The downfall of genius
- The end of an age : Waterloo
- On the future of war.