Michael L. Wehmeyer; Martin Agran; Carolyn Hughes; James E. Martin; Dennis E. Mithaug Guilford Publications (2007) Saatavuus: Painos loppu Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Michael L. Wehmeyer; Martin Agran; Carolyn Hughes; James E. Martin; Dennis E. Mithaug Guilford Publications (2007) Saatavuus: Painos loppu Kovakantinen kirja
Sivumäärä: 384 sivua Asu: Pehmeäkantinen kirja Julkaisuvuosi: 1995, 13.11.1995 (lisätietoa) Kieli: Englanti
The campaigns of Frederick the Great were more than the apogee of eighteenth-century warfare: as Dennis Showalter argues in this stimulating book which sets them in their full context, they were a watershed in the history of Europe. They inaugurated a new pattern -- of total war for limited objectives -- that was to endure until 1916. Frederick's battles were designed to convince his adversaries of the wisdom not just of making peace but also of keeping it; for him, victory in the field was the means to the more enduring victory of a successful negotiation, and, as such, his wars prefigure those of Napoleon.