The Allure of Battle
A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost
(Sprache: Englisch)
Stretching from Antiquity to the Second World War, a major new work of history that examines how battles have been fought--and reveals how wars have actually been won.
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Stretching from Antiquity to the Second World War, a major new work of history that examines how battles have been fought--and reveals how wars have actually been won.
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History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Marathon, Cannae, Tours, Agincourt, Austerlitz, Sedan, Stalingrad--all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But were they? As Cathal J. Nolan demonstrates in this magisterial and sweeping work, victory in major wars usually has been determined in other ways. Even the most legendarily lopsided of battles did not necessarily decide their outcomes. Nolan also challenges the hoary concept of the military "genius," even of the Great Captains--from Alexander to Frederick and Napoleon--mapping instead the decent into total war.The Allure of Battle systematically recreates and analyzes the major campaigns among the Great Powers, from the Middle Ages through the 20th century, from the fall of Byzantium to the defeat of the Axis powers, tracing the illusion of "short-war thinking," the hope that victory might be swift and conflict brief. Such as almost never been the case. Even one-sided battles have mainly contributed to victory or defeat by accelerating erosion of the other side's defenses, resources, and will.
Massive conflicts, the so-called "people's wars," beginning with Napoleon and continuing until the end of World War II, have been more fundamentally determined by prolonged stalemate and attrition, wars in which the determining factor was not tactical but industrial.
Nolan's masterful book places battles squarely and mercilessly within the context of the wider conflict in which they took place. In the process it help corrects a distorted view of their role in war, replacing popular images of "decisive battles" with somber appreciation of the sacrifice and endurance necessary to victory. Accessible, provocative, exhaustive, and illuminating, The Allure of Battle will spark fresh debate about the history and conduct of warfare.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Allure of Battle “
- Introduction
- Chapter I: Battle in History
- Chapter II: Battle Retarded
- Chapter III: Battle Remembered
- Chapter IV: Battle Reformed
- Chapter V: Battle with Reason
- Chapter VI: Battle Restored
- Chapter VII: Battle Decisive
- Chapter VIII: Battle Defeated
- Chapter IX: Battle Exalted
- Chapter X: Battle of Annihilation
- Chapter XI: Annihilation of Battle
- Chapter XII: Annihilation of Strategy
- Chapter XIII: Annihilation of Nations
- Chapter XIV: Annihilation of Mercy
- Chapter XV: Annihilation at Sea
- Chapter XVI: Annihilation of Illusions
- Conclusion
Autoren-Porträt von Cathal J. Nolan
Cathal J. Nolan is Associate Professor of History and Executive Director of the International History Institute at Boston University. In addition to editing six books on international history, Nolan is the author of Principled Diplomacy: Security and Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy and Wars of the Age of Louis XIV. He is also the sole author of several multi-volume encyclopedias on military and international history.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Cathal J. Nolan
- 2019, 728 Seiten, 10 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 14 x 21 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0190931515
- ISBN-13: 9780190931513
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Nolan exhibits an impressive depth of knowledge of his subject; his work is marked by stylish writing with extensive discourse on political and social as well as military issues Russell K. Brown, The Journal of America's Military Past
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