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• Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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• Release Date : 23 June 2024

The author maintains that modern attitudes toward total war were conceived during the Napoleonic era; and argues that all the elements of total war were evident including conscription, unconditional surrender,

• Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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• Release Date : 03 June 2014

“A mesmerizing account that illuminates not just the Napoleonic wars but all of modern history . . . It reads like a novel” (Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of modern European history, UCLA).

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 11 September 2000

World War I was the first large-scale industrialized military conflict, and it led to the concept of total war. The essays in this volume analyze the experience of the war

• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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• Release Date : 16 September 2010

What is total war? Definitions abound, but one thing is certain—the concept of total war has come to be seen as a defining concept of the modern age. In

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 23 June 2024

This volume presents the results of a conference on the history of total war.

• Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
• File Size : 38,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2006

The two World Wars placed unprecedented demands on their participants and had a profound impact on many aspects of national life. The mobilization of human and material resources for total

• Publisher : John Murray
• File Size : 48,5 Mb
• Release Date : 09 June 2011

In February 1943, German forces surrendered to the Red Army at Stalingrad and the tide of war turned. By May 1945 Soviet soldiers had stormed Berlin and brought down Hitler's regime. Total

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 26,8 Mb
• Release Date : 09 May 2006

Warfare in the first half of the 20th century was fundamentally and irrovocably altered by the birth and subsequent development of air power. This work assesses the role of air

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 21,6 Mb
• Release Date : 26 June 2019

Originally published in 1981 and now re-issued with a new Preface, this book contains contributions on key issues such as the origins of the First World War, the psychological impact of

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 50,8 Mb
• Release Date : 23 June 2024

Patterson explores how modern men and women respond to the threat of new warfare with new capacities for imagining aggression and death. This is an unflinching history of the locationless