Dimensions
129 x 198 x 26mm
A brilliant historian tells how the Enlightenment and the French Revolution spawned the first total war - and how this legacy haunts us today.
In this tour de force of interpretative history, David A. Bell explains that Napoleon's was the first 'total' war in European history, when warfare was transformed into the hideous spectacle that seems ever present today. With a historian's sharp eye for detail, Bell resurrects Napoleonic Europe and brings a new perspective to a period we thought we knew.