The Age of Battles
The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo
Published by: Indiana University Press
608 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.00 in
- Paperback
- 9780253217073
- Published: April 2004
$40.00
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"One of the most interesting, important, and ambitious books about the conduct, and perhaps the ultimate futility, of war." —Gunther E. Rothenberg
"[A] highly scholarly and wonderfully absorbing study." —John Bayley, The London Review of Books
"What Russell F. Weigley writes, the rest of us read. The Age of Battles is a persuasive reminder that even in the age of 'rational' warfare, one can honestly wonder why war seemed an unavoidable policy choice." —Allan R. Millett, The Journal of American History